{"id":311664,"date":"2025-11-28T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311664\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:53:09","slug":"reaction-dana-white-announces-2-massive-title-fights-for-ufc-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311664\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction: Dana White announces 2 massive title fights for UFC 324"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 324 finally has some life after Dana White delivered a surprise Thanksgiving announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White revealed Thursday afternoon that the main event for the UFC\u2019s first numbered event of the Paramount era will be Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett for the interim lightweight title, with the winner expected to face Ilia Topuria later in 2026 in a unification bout. The co-main event is the highly anticipated showdown years in the making between former teammates Kayla Harrison and Amanda Nunes as they battle for Harrison\u2019s newly won bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 324 takes place Jan. 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following White\u2019s breaking news, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew react to the announcements, the interim title fight getting the main event slot over Harrison vs. Nunes, what this means for Ilia Topuria and Arman Tsarukyan in 2026, Sean O\u2019Malley facing Song Yadong, Derrick Lewis vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta, and much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the special reaction video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 324 finally has some life after Dana White delivered a surprise Thanksgiving announcement. White revealed Thursday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-311664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311664","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=311664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}