{"id":745287,"date":"2026-06-18T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745287\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:27:10","slug":"defiant-michael-chandler-wont-retire-vows-to-respond-like-a-champion-following-ufc-white-house-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745287\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant Michael Chandler won\u2019t retire, vows to \u2018respond like a champion\u2019 following UFC White House loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sorry haters, Michael Chandler is here to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cObviously the fight did not go my way, but I\u2019m in good spirits,\u201d Chandler said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZuck_jg96U\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m happy, I\u2019m healthy, I\u2019m hard to kill. I\u2019m impossible to kill. I\u2019m impossible to defeat because I\u2019m so truly blessed. Physically I\u2019m good, a little banged up. I got punched in the ear. I\u2019m banged up in the ear, got punched right in the ear and ripped it open. Hats off to Mauricio Ruffy. He was a tough puzzle to solve, to get going in there. He\u2019s long, he\u2019s fast, he\u2019s accurate, he\u2019s a good striker, and he landed the shots that ended the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cMassive thank you to the UFC for the opportunity,\u201d Chandler added. \u201cMassive thank you to Dana for being a visionary who does one-of-one, crazy, never-to-be-seen again type of events. You have these moments in life where everyone\u2019s watching how you\u2019re going to respond, and I promise you, just as I always have, I will continue to respond like a champion. It stinks because I know I prepared. I promise you I prepared to the best of my ability, left no stone unturned in my preparation. I can rest easy knowing that I did every single thing that I possibly could in this training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more UFC White House news and results click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorry haters, Michael Chandler is here to stay. \u201cObviously the fight did not go my way, but I\u2019m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,125620,6656],"class_list":["post-745287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745287","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=745287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}