{"id":745118,"date":"2026-06-18T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:40:15","slug":"ilia-topuria-suspended-six-months-for-broken-face-after-ufc-white-house-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745118\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria suspended six months for broken face after UFC White House loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> champion Ilia Topuria landed a six-month medical suspension after breaking both orbital bones in his title loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/justin-gaethje\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje<\/a> at UFC White House, per MMA Junkie.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten Spaniard absorbed a four-round beating at Freedom 250 in Washington, DC, last weekend, dropping his first professional bout. Gaethje also drew a 180-day sit pending clearance of possible wrist and knee injuries, according to the District of Columbia athletic commission.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple fighters face extended layoffs after UFC White House<\/p>\n<p>Alex Pereira joins the half-year club with a suspension pending a negative maxillofacial CT scan, as do Aiemann Zahabi and Steve Garcia. Zahabi and Pereira took TKO losses, while Garcia suffered a knockout defeat and requires a left-hand X-ray clearance. Michael Chandler and Derrick Lewis each drew 45-day mandatory rests following their own stoppage losses.<\/p>\n<p>Topuria must gain written clearance from an oral and maxillofacial surgeon before returning to the cage. The commission issued him an additional 60-day mandatory rest for the TKO. Fighters often cut their suspensions short once doctors sign off, but the orbital fractures typically demand at least three months of healing time.<\/p>\n<p>UFC has not announced a date for Topuria&#8217;s return or whether the promotion will book an immediate rematch with Gaethje.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Reported via:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-medical-suspensions-and-injuries\/451613\/ilia-topuria-benched-six-months-broken-face-ufc-white-house-medical-suspensions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Mania<\/a> \u2014 Ilia Topuria benched six months for broken face following UFC White House medical suspensions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former lightweight champion Ilia Topuria landed a six-month medical suspension after breaking both orbital bones in his title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-745118","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\/745118","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=745118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}