{"id":729258,"date":"2026-06-11T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729258\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:28:09","slug":"ufc-white-house-preparations-for-ufc-freedom-250-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729258\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House: Preparations for UFC Freedom 250 &#8211; in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors to the White House have been greeted by a much-changed landscape over the past couple of weeks as preparations for UFC Freedom 250 come together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday evening in Washington DC, Illia Topuria will defend his UFC lightweight title against Justin Gaethje on the South Lawn of the historic centre of American power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event marks 250 years of American Independence and also falls on President Donald Trump&#8217;s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Construction on a hulking structure, nicknamed &#8216;the claw&#8217;, began in May with workers assembling domed arches over a staging area which will become the octagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An unprecedented event has already thrown up countless picture-worthy moments &#8211; here are some of the most eye-catching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors to the White House have been greeted by a much-changed landscape over the past couple of weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-729258","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\/729258","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=729258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}