{"id":254479,"date":"2025-11-01T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254479\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:06:15","slug":"masvidal-claims-to-be-calling-donald-trump-to-score-ufc-white-house-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254479\/","title":{"rendered":"Masvidal claims to be calling Donald Trump to score UFC White House bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jorge Masvidal is busting out all the stops for a chance to land a spot on UFC\u2019s upcoming White House card and that includes supposed phone calls to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Just about everyone is trying to score an opportunity to fight on the White House lawn in 2026 so Masvidal is joining a long list of other fighters vying for the same thing. While Masvidal has a leg up over most given his track record in the sport and popularity among fight fans, the fact remains that he\u2019s turning 41 years old next month, hasn\u2019t competed inside of the Octagon in nearly three years, and is riding a four-fight MMA losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Masvidal, who has logged two professional boxing bouts since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/4\/9\/23675574\/watch-full-fight-video-highlights-gilbert-burns-jorge-masvidal-ufc-287-results-espn-ppv-miami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcing his UFC retirement<\/a> back in April 2023, claims that he\u2019s been training for months and is in great shape heading into the new year. In addition to ramping up his training, \u201cGamebred\u201d is also claiming that he has contacted President Trump directly in hopes of landing a spot on next year\u2019s UFC White House card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been training for like two, three months now. I\u2019m calling Trump and everybody \u2014 you got to get me on this card,\u201d said Masvidal during a recent interview with Henry Cejudo (shown above). \u201cI\u2019m just staying focused, staying in shape; hopefully everything works out. I\u2019m still always down to fight Leon [Edwards] just \u2019cause we got all the history. I\u2019ve never had any ill will towards Leon and I still don\u2019t have ill will towards him, but I\u2019d still love to punch him in the face and just settle all that. If it\u2019s not Leon, just give me somebody that\u2019s going to come and fight. Let\u2019s throw down for the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What do you think, fight fans? If Masvidal is healthy, in shape, and ready to return at the UFC\u2019s White House card, should the promotion grant him the opportunity?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If so, who should \u201cGamebred\u201d face in his UFC return? Leon Edwards? Colby Covington?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal is busting out all the stops for a chance to land a spot on UFC\u2019s upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-254479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254479","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=254479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}