{"id":722019,"date":"2026-06-08T00:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722019\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:37:09","slug":"ufc-white-house-countdown-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722019\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House \u2018Countdown\u2019 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After a year of hype and big promises, it\u2019s officially UFC White House fight week, and Ilia Topuria and Justin Gaethje get to battle it out at the White House to see who is the undisputed lightweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The one-of-one historic event takes place next Sunday, June 14, and streams exclusively on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Topuria puts his newly won title on the line for the first time just under a year after knocking out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 to win his second divisional title. The former featherweight champ faces Gaethje, who is now a two-time interim champ following a dominant decision win over Paddy Pimblett at January\u2019s UFC 324 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch the UFC White House \u2018Countdown\u2019 as the UFC tells the story of how the event came together, the build to Topuria vs. Gaethje, and the rest of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In the co-main event, Alex Pereira looks to make history as he looks to capture a third divisional title belt as he faces Ciryl Gane for the interim heavyweight championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out the newest Countdown episode above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a year of hype and big promises, it\u2019s officially UFC White House fight week, and Ilia Topuria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-722019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722019","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=722019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}