{"id":729997,"date":"2026-06-11T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729997\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:32:08","slug":"ufc-freedom-250-day-2-inside-look-at-finalized-white-house-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729997\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Freedom 250, Day 2: Inside look at finalized White House setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Fight week for <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-freedom-250-topuria-vs-gaethje\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Freedom 250;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Freedom 250&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC Freedom 250<\/a> continued Thursday with a media tour of the White House grounds.<\/p>\n<p>MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting from the South Lawn of the White House, where the fights take place Sunday. A makeshift arena has been created, with &#8220;The Claw&#8221; covering the octagon and the majority of the seating area in the most unique setup in UFC history.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Throughout fight week, MMA Junkie will provide day-by-day recaps of what is happening on the ground ahead of the historic event at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Day 2 recap in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/06\/11\/ufc-freedom-250-day-2-inside-look-white-house-setup-cageside\/90504801007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Freedom 250, Day 2 recap: Inside look at White House setup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Freedom 250, Day 2 recap&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC Freedom 250, Day 2 recap: Inside look at White House setup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 Fight week for UFC Freedom 250 continued Thursday with a media tour of the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,3169,85,787,19542],"class_list":["post-729997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729997","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=729997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}