{"id":510468,"date":"2026-02-28T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:26:07","slug":"jon-jones-vs-alex-pereira-in-play-for-ufc-white-house-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510468\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones Vs. Alex Pereira In Play For UFC White House Main Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There have been talks to have Alex Pereira fight Jon Jones at UFC\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House card<\/a> after \u201cPoatan\u201d vacated his light heavyweight title on Friday, but many stars still need to align to get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=05Owrm_G2fw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA reporter Ariel Helwani<\/a>, UFC officials have already had talks about hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-rematch-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/394137\/alex-pereira-calls-for-heavyweight-superfight-following-ufc-320-win-jon-jones-at-the-white-house\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pereira vs. Jones superfight<\/a> at the White House. There isn\u2019t overwhelming momentum to suggest the matchup will definitely be finalized, but as of now the super fight is \u201cnot dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If UFC is unable to come to terms with Jones to make his return on the White House lawn then the backup plan is to have Pereira meet Ciryl Gane for the interim UFC heavyweight title. That would give Pereira the chance to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/5\/3\/24148459\/three-division-champion-alex-pereira-accepts-jon-jones-heavyweight-callout-my-job-is-to-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first UFC fighter to win titles in three different weight classes<\/a>. Of course, fight fans would rather see \u201cPoatan\u201d accomplish that feat against Jones than Gane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere have been some talks of that,\u201c said Helwani about a Pereira vs. Jones fight. \u201cI think that would be a tremendous White House main event. I don\u2019t know if they ultimately get it done. And I think if they don\u2019t get it done what I\u2019m hearing is they would do Alex vs. Ciryl Gane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stick with Mania for more UFC White House fight card news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been talks to have Alex Pereira fight Jon Jones at UFC\u2019s upcoming White House card after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,178239,179146,125620],"class_list":{"0":"post-510468","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-on-cbs","16":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","17":"tag-ufc-white-house-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510468","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=510468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}