{"id":233307,"date":"2025-10-22T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233307\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:26:11","slug":"done-deal-trump-adds-bo-nickal-to-ufc-white-house-fight-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233307\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Done deal\u2019 \u2014 Trump adds Bo Nickal to UFC White House fight card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI\u2019m planning on being on that card,\u201d Nickal told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1980680523677855795\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s history. That\u2019s exciting. That\u2019s something I feel like I would be ecstatic and grateful to be a part of. I\u2019ve got to take care of business. I\u2019ve talked with President Trump; he wants me on the card. I\u2019m sure that if things line up, we\u2019ll make it happen. I was on FOX promoting the RAF [Real American Freestyle] event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe obviously watches that,\u201d Nickal continued. \u201cI was on FOX and Friends. He called me up and sent me some encouragement. We talked about the card for a second. I told him that I want to get on it, and he said, \u2018done deal.\u2019 Him and Dana [White] are obviously very close. If he puts a good word on my behalf, then it\u2019s probably putting me in a good position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nickal, 29, is 7-1 in mixed martial arts (MMA) with six finishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201dI\u2019m planning on being on that card,\u201d Nickal told Ariel Helwani. \u201cThat\u2019s history. That\u2019s exciting. That\u2019s something I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,125620,1647],"class_list":["post-233307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}