{"id":244086,"date":"2025-10-27T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244086\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:40:07","slug":"pushy-reporter-downs-dana-white-rescues-ufc-vet-from-prelims-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244086\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushy reporter downs Dana White, rescues UFC vet from Prelims purgatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One pushy reporter demanded more respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI wanted to ask you in the states but I wasn\u2019t able to get into the states,\u201c the reporter asked through his translator. \u201dVeronica Hardy was once again the opener for the entire [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/391313\/ufc-320-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 320<\/a>] event and this is like the seventh time she\u2019s been opening it. Is there a reason why she\u2019s always the first fight of the night?\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t know, but maybe not the eighth time the opener of the event,\u201d the reporter suggested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI will move her just for you, sir,\u201c White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s clip of the exchange:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One pushy reporter demanded more respect. \u201cI wanted to ask you in the states but I wasn\u2019t able&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,92726,44986,702],"class_list":["post-244086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-start-time","tag-ufc-prelims","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}