{"id":485080,"date":"2026-06-10T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/485080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:19:09","slug":"dana-white-sean-strickland-isnt-banned-from-ufc-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/485080\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: Sean Strickland isn’t banned from UFC White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013\u00a0Dana White has refuted Sean Strickland<\/a>‘s claims of being banned from attending UFC Freedom 250.<\/p>\n

Last week, the UFC middleweight champion said the promotion had banned<\/a> him from Sunday’s event at the White House, while also going on a political rant, criticizing President Donald Trump’s backing of Israel in its ongoing conflict with Palestine. Strickland said the UFC brass called him and said he was “not Israeli enough” to attend.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to MMA Junkie and other media members Tuesday, White said said that wasn’t the case \u2013\u00a0though he stopped short of saying Strickland was expressly invited or if he would attend.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s banned, apparently,” White said. “Apparently, f*cking everybody is banned. Of course Sean Strickland isn\u2019t banned. Sean Strickland is banned from humanity, OK? We don\u2019t want him near any human beings anywhere. F*cking shows up at Power Slap, he starts fights \u2013 and he made it very clear he didn\u2019t want to be a part of this event, and now, apparently, (he\u2019s saying) he\u2019s banned.”<\/p>\n

White assured the UFC isn’t trying to censor anyone or anything ahead of the UFC Freedom 250, an event that’s caused a lot of controversy and generated many opinions online.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody is banned,” White said. “Nobody\u2019s music is banned. No media members have been banned. And the list goes on and on. \u2026 Literally nobody has been banned from this event. \u2026 There\u2019s a lot of bullsh*t floating around out there. Nobody\u2019s banned. Nothing\u2019s banned.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Freedom 250: Dana White responds to Sean Strickland’s banned claim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013\u00a0Dana White has refuted Sean Strickland‘s claims of being banned from attending UFC Freedom 250. Last week,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25828,85,46,12521,174965,105,7793,7421],"class_list":["post-485080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-dana-white","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}