{"id":351660,"date":"2025-12-16T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351660\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:17:08","slug":"alex-pereira-casts-doubt-over-ufc-future-with-cryptic-post-that-could-derail-jon-jones-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351660\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira casts doubt over UFC future with cryptic post that could derail Jon Jones fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Pereira has said his appearance on the UFC White House card is a ‘no go.’<\/p>\n

The UFC light heavyweight champion<\/a> has been linked to a blockbuster super-fight with Jon Jones<\/a> on the White House card ever since he reclaimed the title at UFC 320.<\/p>\n

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Pereira reclaimed the UFC light heavyweight title in October and called out Jon Jones for a heavyweight clash in the aftermathCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

After knocking out Magomed Ankalaev<\/a> in 80 seconds, Pereira<\/a> called out Jones and has since expressed his desire to move up to heavyweight several times.<\/p>\n

Jones reversed his decision to retire<\/a> in July to fight at UFC White House<\/a>, which is set to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States on Donald Trump’s birthday in June 2026.<\/p>\n

The American gladly accepted Pereira’s call-out at the time, but it now seems unlikely, given the latter’s latest cryptic social media post.<\/p>\n

Alex Pereira gives update on UFC White House fight<\/p>\n

“Looks like the White House is a NO GO!!!” Pereira wrote via Instagram on Monday alongside a photo of himself and UFC<\/a> CEO Dana White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Members of the MMA fraternity have since raised questions over what exactly Pereira means, suggesting the UFC most likely want the Brazilian to fight earlier than June.<\/p>\n

Responding to Pereira’s post on X, one fan said: “That means no Jon Jones vs ‘Poatan’ huh\u2026”<\/p>\n

Another added: “Wasn\u2019t this meant to be the biggest and best fight card ever? If you don\u2019t have the biggest star currently on the card, it’s gonna struggle.”<\/p>\n

A third wrote: “The White House card is shaping up to be a disaster. We\u2019re gonna be getting a Colby [Covington] main event at this rate.”<\/p>\n

Another said: “They must be planning Jon vs Francis [Ngannou]. That\u2019s the only thing that makes sense. Pereira is probably the biggest star in MMA right now.”<\/p>\n

While a fifth responded: “So no Alex, and no Ilia [Topuria]. What is even the point of this card?”<\/p>\n

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Jones vs Pereira is now a big doubt after the Brazilian’s latest social media postCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

No. 3-ranked UFC light heavyweight Carlos Ulberg is the current frontrunner to fight Pereira next for the belt.<\/p>\n

The pair could be booked to headline UFC 327 in late April as part of the promotion’s new broadcast deal with Paramount+<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UFC 327 has not been announced yet, but it would need a main event with a big name like Pereira, with champions such as Tom Aspinall<\/a> and Ilia Topuria<\/a> all currently out of action.<\/p>\n

The event will follow the UFC’s visit to Las Vegas, Sydney, Houston, Mexico City, and London in a packed start to the 2026 schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira has said his appearance on the UFC White House card is a ‘no go.’ The UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,193371,64,63,786,785,9226,27791,120935,193370,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-351660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alex-pereira","9":"tag-alex-pereira-ufc","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-mma-news","15":"tag-pereira","16":"tag-pereira-ufc","17":"tag-poatan","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-ufc","20":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351660","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=351660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}