{"id":421133,"date":"2026-01-20T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:40:10","slug":"are-ufc-officials-banning-russian-fighters-from-white-house-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421133\/","title":{"rendered":"Are UFC Officials Banning Russian Fighters From White House Card?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili has the right information then UFC officials plan to put a kibosh on Russian fighters competing at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House card<\/a> this June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, it now appears a good number of UFC athletes will not even have the chance to compete on the historic card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this week, Dvalishvili sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MMA_PROS_PICK_\/status\/2012931086616031387\" rel=\"nofollow\">MMA Pros Pick<\/a> to discuss his next fight inside of the Octagon. While UFC officials informed \u201cMachine\u201d he\u2019ll get his trilogy fight against current 135-pound king Petr Yan they apparently also told him there\u2019s no chance of it happening at the White House. That\u2019s because Yan is from Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Until we get official word from UFC and see what the final White House lineup looks like, we\u2019ll have to take Merab\u2019s word for it. Check it out below and let us know your thoughts!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe UFC told me I\u2019m next for the belt. They said there will be a trilogy between me and Yan,\u201d said Dvalishvili.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThey also told me that our fight will not happen at the White House in June because (Yan) is Russian, and that\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili has the right information then UFC officials plan to put a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,98879,702],"class_list":["post-421133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421133","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=421133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}