{"id":262818,"date":"2025-11-04T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262818\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:26:08","slug":"trumps-ufc-white-house-to-include-dignitaries-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262818\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s UFC White House to include \u2018dignitaries from around the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI want on the White House card,\u201d former UFC welterweight, Mike Perry, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dt10mySthWM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>. \u201cYou come to America and I feel like I\u2019m a very exciting fighter that would love to fight at the White House with the country flag, representing. I don\u2019t know what these pay cuts might be looking like, but the White House just sounded fun. I heard some numbers Conor (McGregor) was talking about and I\u2019m not asking for that, so I\u2019d be a fun draw on the card representing USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Perry isn\u2019t the only one angling for a Capitol clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMy perfect world: I fight soon and then I fight again at the White House,\u201d UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion, Kayla Harrison, told Jorge Masvidal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oGuOXPSqPuE?si=UNPGnvncBIsSx2y-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDeath Row MMA<\/a>\u201d podcast. \u201cFor sure I am going to be on the White House card, I\u2019m the only American champion. Either Valentina beats Weili [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/385790\/ufc-322-card-start-time-date-and-location-makhachev-vs-jack-della\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at UFC 322<\/a>] and then we do like a USA vs. Russia \u2018Rocky 4\u2019 style or everybody has been talking about Ronda (Rousey) coming back, so that would be great. Or whoever\u2019s next in line. I literally don\u2019t care. I\u2019ll fight anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want on the White House card,\u201d former UFC welterweight, Mike Perry, told Ariel Helwani. \u201cYou come to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262819,"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":{"0":"post-262818","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","15":"tag-ufc-white-house-2026","16":"tag-upcoming-ufc-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262818","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=262818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}