{"id":310469,"date":"2025-11-27T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:24:20","slug":"jon-jones-vs-conor-mcgregor-debate-settled-by-boxing-star-ahead-of-ufc-white-house-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310469\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones vs Conor McGregor debate settled by boxing star ahead of UFC White House event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The boxing star sides with the UFC heavyweight champion as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mma\/players\/dana_white\/58632\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White<\/a> considers his 2026 headliner. <\/p>\n<p> The UFC\u2019s landmark card at the White House is still seven months away, but the battle over who should top the bill has already sparked fierce debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mma\/players\/jon_jones\/128064\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Jones<\/a> has made it clear he wants the historic main event on June 14, 2026, while Dana White has openly argued that Conor McGregor would be the \u201cmore reliable\u201d option. <\/p>\n<p> Now, boxing star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/boxing\/players\/ryan_garcia\/910295\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia<\/a> has stepped into the conversation \u2014 and he disagrees entirely with the UFC CEO. For him, Jones is the safer bet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boxing star sides with the UFC heavyweight champion as Dana White considers his 2026 headliner. The UFC\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-310469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310469","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=310469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}