{"id":278453,"date":"2025-11-11T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278453\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:22:09","slug":"will-jon-jones-vs-alex-pereira-headline-ufc-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278453\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Jon Jones vs Alex Pereira headline UFC White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately for \u201cBones,\u201d there\u2019s a much bigger fight on the horizon, assuming Islam Makhachev is able to defeat Jack Della Maddalena <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\">atop the UFC 322 pay-per-view (PPV) event<\/a> this weekend in New York. Though it all depends on whether to not lightweight champion Ilia Topuria plans to make good on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/20\/24452954\/ilia-topuria-ready-to-chase-islam-makhachev-up-to-welterweight-for-third-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this promise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think right now, Topuria and Islam is the biggest fight, not Jon Jones and Pereira,\u201d former UFC 155-pound champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gCNyM8nXtRc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weighing In<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s still a big fight, but not on that level. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s same level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think if you\u2019re making White House fight, it has to be more American fighters,\u201d Nurmagomedov continued. \u201cIf a Georgian fighter fights against a Russian fighter, it\u2019s not interesting in front of White House. It has to be something like American fighters representing country, fighting against other guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unfortunately for \u201cBones,\u201d there\u2019s a much bigger fight on the horizon, assuming Islam Makhachev is able to defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278454,"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-278453","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\/278453","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=278453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}