{"id":728172,"date":"2026-06-10T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:54:07","slug":"ufc-fighters-say-theyre-honored-to-compete-in-front-of-president-trump-on-card-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728172\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC fighters say they&#8217;re honored to compete in front of President Trump on card at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5END6WY33BC7NBW332ZI45MS5A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">WASHINGTON \u2014 UFC fighter Josh Hokit was decked out in an American flag bandana and American eagle gloves as he unleashed vigorous trash talk ahead of the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ufc-white-house-trump-south-lawn-cdd89e3f10addd213c456f312a51cc25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House debut<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IMTBL4WUVBHY3JFRGMBOFRCEFI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sean O\u2019Malley earned American style points for dressing in red \u2014 his hair and suit \u2014 and blue \u2014 dress shirt, tie and, well, hair again \u2014 and Michael Chandler visualized accessorizing his fight night walk-out before he dished out a patriotic pounding draped in an American flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 UFC fighter Josh Hokit was decked out in an American flag bandana and American eagle gloves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,134,786,482,10280,785,352626,84,85,488],"class_list":["post-728172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fighting","tag-general-news","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-mma-ufc-white-house","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728172","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=728172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}