{"id":348763,"date":"2025-12-16T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:19:11","slug":"looks-like-the-white-house-is-a-no-go-alex-pereira-seemingly-shuts-down-june-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348763\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLooks Like The White House Is A NO GO!!!\u201d &#8211; Alex Pereira Seemingly Shuts Down June Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira seemingly shuts down the possibility of him competing on the White House card in June. Taking to Instagram,\u00a0Poatan posted a picture of himself and Dana White with the caption: \u2018Looks like the White House is a NO GO!!!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p> Alex Pereira Shuts Down White House Appearance<\/p>\n<p>Alex Pereira has arguably been the biggest company man since entering the UFC in 2021. In a little over four years, he\u2019s competed 12 times, across two weight divisions, notching two belts, headlined eight PPVs, including the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/ufc-300-the-stats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 300<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no denying he\u2019s a fan favourite, a reliable, entertaining megastar and even when he was defeated by Magomed Ankalaev, he rebounded with a stunning performance, winning his belt back in just 1:20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/imago1067564495-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/imago1067564495-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/a>October 4, 2025, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: ALEX PEREIRA 13-3 of Sao Paolo, Brazil defeats MAGOMED ANKALAEV 21-2-1-1NC of Dagestan, Russia by TKO Strike at 1:20 of Round 1 during UFC 320 at the T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Las Vegas USA \u2013 ZUMAo117 20251004_zsp_o117_220 Copyright: xMikaelxOnax<\/p>\n<p>After that victory, many expected him to take some time off and feature on the biggest card in MMA history, the scheduled <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/ufc-white-house-card-trump-promises-megacard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House Card<\/a> in June 2026. Who would he face? There isn\u2019t a fellow megastar at 205lbs, but there were murmurs about him moving up to heavyweight to try and win a third belt in a third division.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Aspinall and Jon Jones\u2019 names were thrown into the hat, however, his recent post appears to have shut down any potential of seeing the Brazilian walk out on the President\u2019s lawn come June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-31-2025-07_57_55-PM-e1756666707612.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-199947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-31-2025-07_57_55-PM-e1756666707612.png\" alt=\"UFC White House Card\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of yet, no fights have been announced for the megacard; however, it won\u2019t be long until we get the first rumours swirling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira seemingly shuts down the possibility of him competing on the White House card&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348763","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348763","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=348763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}