{"id":757425,"date":"2026-06-24T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:29:09","slug":"rematch-charles-oliveira-calls-for-ufc-bmf-title-unification-fight-against-justin-gaethje-waiting-for-my-phone-to-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757425\/","title":{"rendered":"Rematch! Charles Oliveira calls for UFC, BMF title unification fight against Justin Gaethje &#8212; \u2018Waiting for my phone to ring\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI made it very clear that I was waiting for the White House event to be over so we could figure out what the next step was. Now we know,\u201d Oliveira told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/495780\/charles-oliveira-wants-justin-gaethje-rematch-to-settle-unfinished-business-unify-ufc-bmf-belts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cThe champion is Justin Gaethje, and I definitely want that fight. I definitely want to be next in line. And there\u2019s nothing better than putting both belts on the line, the BMF title and the lightweight championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m just waiting for a phone call,\u201d Oliveira said. \u201cThey know there\u2019s a lot at stake in this fight. There\u2019s everything that happened with the weigh-in, the fact that I fought in his backyard and that my belt was taken from me there. There\u2019s a lot of history behind this matchup. I have a lot of respect for him, just like I respect every opponent, but this fight has to happen. Like I posted, I\u2019m just waiting for my phone to ring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI made it very clear that I was waiting for the White House event to be over so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,362285,1396,125620],"class_list":["post-757425","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-274","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757425","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=757425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}