{"id":219,"date":"2026-05-28T09:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/?p=219"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:14:04","slug":"dana-white-announces-ufc-freedom-250-at-the-white-house-but-the-insects-have-other-plans-%f0%9f%aa%b0%f0%9f%a5%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Announces UFC Freedom 250 at the White House&#8230; But the Insects Have Other Plans \ud83e\udeb0\ud83e\udd4a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Dana White just took UFC to the next level \u2014 straight to the White House lawn!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">In a historic moment for combat sports, the UFC President officially announced <strong>UFC Freedom 250<\/strong>, the biggest Independence Day themed event in UFC history. With massive fights on the card and the iconic White House as the backdrop, everything looked perfect\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u2026until the insects showed up.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Mosquitoes, flies, and who knows what else decided that the fighters\u2019 faces looked like an all-you-can-eat buffet. Even Dana himself couldn\u2019t escape the chaos as the bugs crashed the biggest announcement of the year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Is this the most American thing ever? Absolute chaos, freedom, and a little blood (or bug juice) in the air \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Who do you want to see fight at UFC Freedom 250?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dana White just took UFC to the next level \u2014 straight to the White House lawn! In a historic moment for combat sports, the UFC <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/deanova.net\/?p=219\" title=\"Dana White Announces UFC Freedom 250 at the White House&#8230; But the Insects Have Other Plans \ud83e\udeb0\ud83e\udd4a\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}