{"id":733590,"date":"2026-06-13T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733590\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:51:09","slug":"ufc-freedom-250-press-conference-face-offs-topuria-shoves-gaethje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733590\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Freedom 250 Press Conference Face-Offs: Topuria shoves Gaethje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/ufcnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC<\/a> Freedom 250 Pre-Fight Press Conference took place on Friday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Following the questions, the fighters faced off with their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Freedom 250 takes place on Sunday, June 14, on the South Lawn of the White House. The event is headlined by a lightweight title unification bout between champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/tag\/ilia-topuria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ilia Topuria;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ilia Topuria&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ilia Topuria<\/a>\u00a0and interim titleholder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/tag\/justin-gaethje\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justin Gaethje;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Justin Gaethje&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Justin Gaethje<\/a>. During their face-off, Topuria gave Gaethje a little shove.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Freedom 250 Press Conference Face-Offs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC Freedom 250 Pre-Fight Press Conference took place on Friday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,3262,9577,638,10151,82,28095,640],"class_list":["post-733590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-mma","tag-press-conference","tag-sports","tag-the-white-house","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733590","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=733590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}