{"id":726998,"date":"2026-06-10T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726998\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:29:09","slug":"ufc-white-house-dana-white-denies-sean-strickland-banned-from-white-house-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726998\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House: Dana White denies Sean Strickland banned from White House event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middleweight champion Sean Strickland has not been banned from attending Sunday&#8217;s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, says the organisation&#8217;s chief Dana White.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event is set to take place on the White House&#8217;s South Lawn on President Donald Trump&#8217;s 80th birthday, as part of the celebrations marking 250 years of American independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week Strickland claimed the promotion had barred him from the event because of comments he has made about Trump, Israel and the Epstein Files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on Tuesday, White dismissed Strickland&#8217;s claims but said attendance would be restricted because &#8220;there are only 4,300 tickets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Of course Sean Strickland isn&#8217;t banned [from the event],&#8221; said White, who then joked: &#8220;Sean Strickland is banned from humanity. We don&#8217;t want him near any human beings anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middleweight champion Sean Strickland has not been banned from attending Sunday&#8217;s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-726998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726998","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=726998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}