{"id":658677,"date":"2026-05-08T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658677\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:32:08","slug":"video-ufc-freedom-250-full-card-faceoffs-from-first-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658677\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: UFC Freedom 250 full card faceoffs from first press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWARK, N.J. \u2013 The road to UFC Freedom 250<\/a> is officially underway after Friday’s kick-off press conference, which featured the entire seven-fight card.<\/p>\n

After taking questions from reporters in advance of the June 14 event at the White House in Washington, D.C., every matchup scheduled for the event got face-to-face for staredowns.<\/p>\n

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That included Ilia Topuria<\/a> vs. Justin Gaethje<\/a>, who meet in the lightweight title unifier. Alex Pereira<\/a> vs. Ciryl Gane, who clash for interim heavyweight gold in the co-main event. Additionally, the remaining pairings of Sean O’Malley<\/a> vs. Aiemann Zahabi, Josh Hokit vs. Derrick Lewis, Mauricio Ruffy vs. Michael Chandler, Bo Nickal<\/a> vs. Kyle Daukaus and Diego Lopes<\/a> vs. Steve Garcia all participated in the faceoffs.<\/p>\n

Check out the video above to see the collection of key UFC Freedom 250 fights have faceoffs after the first press conference.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Video: UFC Freedom 250 full card faceoffs from first press conference<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, N.J. \u2013 The road to UFC Freedom 250 is officially underway after Friday’s kick-off press conference, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,17832,29968,798,786,17499,8944,11367,785,668,223734,85,3167,263470,19542],"class_list":["post-658677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bo-nickal","tag-ciryl-gane","tag-derrick-lewis","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-michael-chandler","tag-mma","tag-press-conference","tag-sean-o39malley","tag-sports","tag-steve-garcia","tag-ufc-freedom-250","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658677","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=658677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}