{"id":779544,"date":"2026-07-05T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779544\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:13:09","slug":"justin-gaethje-returns-to-the-white-house-the-rest-of-the-mma-community-celebrates-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779544\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Gaethje returns to the White House, the rest of the MMA community celebrates the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The MMA world already celebrated the 250th anniversary of America, but it\u2019s time to do it again!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While UFC White House took place a few weeks ago, the Fourth of July is finally here, officially ringing in 250 years of the United States. Whenever July 4th comes on a Saturday, it\u2019s always a party, and this year the MMA world carried that same energy, celebrating the birth of the United States in style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Perhaps the biggest celebrant in the MMA world is recently crowned lightweight champion Justin Gaethje, who won the undisputed belt with an epic victory over Ilia Topuria at UFC White House. And for July 4th weekend, Gaethje returned to the scene of his great triumph to hang out with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">See that and the best of the rest Fourth of July posts below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MMA world already celebrated the 250th anniversary of America, but it\u2019s time to do it again! While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-779544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779544","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=779544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}