{"id":655414,"date":"2026-05-07T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655414\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:51:21","slug":"video-ilia-topuria-questions-trump-over-justin-gaethje-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655414\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ilia Topuria questions Trump over Justin Gaethje fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today (Weds., May 6, 2025), several Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) stars \u2014 including Ilia Topuria, Justin Gaethje, Alex Pereira, and Ciryl Gane \u2014 visited the Oval Office<\/a> to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of next month\u2019s historic UFC White House event, officially titled UFC Freedom 250<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Trump revealed new details about the event, including the custom championship belt and early visuals for the setup<\/a>, while welcoming the fighters into the Oval Office for photos and conversation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when UFC Lightweight champion Topuria decided to ask Trump a question.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought you would be so kind,\u201d Topuria told Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I have a false image,\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n

Topuria then followed up with a more fight-related question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did you want to give the toughest test to a friend of yours?\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Trump could answer, Gaethje jumped in.<\/p>\n

\u201cCause he knows that\u2019s what I want,\u201d Gaethje said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do want \u2014 I want to give the hardest tests, that\u2019s right,\u201d Trump responded. \u201cWe\u2019re going to give the hardest tests and actually each one of you are fighting your hardest tests I think, right? You know your opponent very well. You feel good? What are your chances of winning?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I have complete faith, 100 percent. I hope he has the same faith. That\u2019s going to make an amazing fight,\u201d Topuria concluded.<\/p>\n

For complete UFC White House fight card news and coverage click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today (Weds., May 6, 2025), several Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) stars \u2014 including Ilia Topuria, Justin Gaethje, Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,125620,14855],"class_list":["post-655414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655414","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=655414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}