{"id":730489,"date":"2026-06-11T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:52:10","slug":"ufc-white-house-embedded-no-4-alex-pereira-ignores-josh-hokit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730489\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House ‘Embedded,’ No. 4: Alex Pereira ignores Josh Hokit"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of talk, the UFC’s event at the White House\u00a0has arrived.<\/p>\n

The popular “Embedded” fight week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes. UFC Freedom 250 (Paramount+) takes place Sunday at the White House.<\/p>\n

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The headliner is a lightweight title unification fight between champion Ilia Topuria<\/a> (17-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) and interim titleholder Justin Gaethje<\/a> (27-5 MMA, 10-5 UFC). In the co-feature, former middleweight and light heavyweight champ Alex Pereira<\/a> (13-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) will try to become the first to win titles in three UFC\u00a0divisions when he takes on Ciryl Gane (13-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) for the interim heavyweight strap.<\/p>\n

More: UFC White House: Make predictions for\u00a0Topuria-Gaethje, Pereira-Gane<\/a><\/p>\n

Plus, there are five other fights set up to entertain the president, his political backers, and those with big enough bankrolls to pay for tickets to see the spectacle up close.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0fourth episode of “Embedded” follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC’s description of the episode from YouTube:<\/p>\n

Sean O\u2019Malley goes patriotic with his hair color; Diego Lopes trains with the wrestling team at the historic OSU; Aiemann Zahabi hits pads with his brother, Firas Zahabi; UFC athletes begin to complete their Fight Week Check in process; Lightweight Champion Ilia Topuria prepares for war.<\/p>\n

Previous UFC Freedom 250 ‘Embedded’ episodes:<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC White House ‘Embedded,’ No. 4: Alex Pereira ignores Josh Hokit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of talk, the UFC’s event at the White House\u00a0has arrived. The popular “Embedded” fight week video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,786,353611,17499,8944,785,85,787,353610,263470,30032,19542],"class_list":["post-730489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-firas-zahabi","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-divisions","tag-ufc-freedom-250","tag-ufc-white-house","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730489","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=730489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}