UFC White House Preview | Topuria vs Gaethje, Pereira vs Gane & Massive Stakes Across the Card

And this is the main event breakdown.

The aforementioned Ilya Toporia is defending his lightweight championship for the first time.

He is headlining an event on the lawn of the White House against America's Own.

interim lightweight champion Justin Gaethje, the highlight reel, a fight that is guaranteed to deliver.

This main event is a battle between two of the biggest stars that the UFC has quite literally ever seen.

For Ilya Toporia, he has already earned that moniker in just nine UFC bouts.

But it helps when you've won every single one of them and seven of the nine have come by way of stoppage.

And I think it's safe to say that the three-fight championship run of Ilya Toporia may be one of the most impressive runs in the sports history as he knocked out Alexander Volkanovsky to become the UFC featherweight champion.

Then he defended the title by knocking out Max Holloway, becoming the first man to ever do that.

And then he decided to vacate the title, move up to 155 pounds when Islam Makhachev decided to move up to 170 pounds.

And he took out Charles Oliveira.

And you guessed it, that was also by way of knockout.

And just like that, he was a two-weight world champion.

Not to mention he also has victories over Josh Emmett, a former interim title challenger, in a fight that would see Ilya Toporia secure a 50-42 scorecard and a submission win over the submission ace that is Bryce Mitchell, who was perennially ranked in the top 10 of the featherweight division before moving down to bantamweight, where he is now 2-0.

And a win that has aged like a fine wine is all the way back in Ilya Toporia's UFC debut when he defeated Yousef Zilal, who was on an eight-fight win streak heading into his bout recently against Aljamain Sterling in a battle for the top five position at featherweight where he would lose, but still holds on to the number eight spot at featherweight currently.

And Ilya Toporia has done all of this, has accomplished belts in two weight classes, has beaten numerous former world champion and title challengers.

And he is only 29 years old.

He's right now getting ready to enter the prime years that a lot of fighters have at 30, 31, 32, 33.

And here he is headlining an event at the freaking White House with an opportunity to defend a title successfully in a second weight class, something that not a lot of people can say that they have done.

He is one of the most followed superstars on social media, has even been recognized by Real Madrid, one of the biggest football teams in the world, and has an aura about him that is quite truly unprecedented right now in the current state of the UFC across its champions.

And what's even crazier is that he essentially speaks these victories into existence.

The damn guy was celebrating his victory against Charles Oliveira before the fight even took place.

He is the closest thing we have seen to the version of Conor McGregor once labeled as Mystic Mac, and if he continues his winning ways and goes down this path, he can continue to grow his stardom to places that only one man has ever grown it before in this sport, and that is Conor McGregor himself.

And I also think it's worth noting that this is the first time that we're going to see Ilya Toporia compete since June 28th of last year, almost a full year on the shelf, which definitely does suck considering he literally won a title in a second weight class on that night last summer.

So I'm really hoping that this kicks starts a long stretch of activity for Ilya where we can still see multiple years and fights out of him at the top of his game.

And this is the main event breakdown.

The aforementioned Ilya Toporia is defending his lightweight championship for the first time.

He is headlining an event on the lawn of the White House against America's Own.

interim lightweight champion Justin Gaethje, the highlight reel, a fight that is guaranteed to deliver.

This main event is a battle between two of the biggest stars that the UFC has quite literally ever seen.

For Ilya Toporia, he has already earned that moniker in just nine UFC bouts.

But it helps when you've won every single one of them and seven of the nine have come by way of stoppage.

And I think it's safe to say that the three-fight championship run of Ilya Toporia may be one of the most impressive runs in the sports history as he knocked out Alexander Volkanovsky to become the UFC featherweight champion.

Then he defended the title by knocking out Max Holloway, becoming the first man to ever do that.

And then he decided to vacate the title, move up to 155 pounds when Islam Makhachev decided to move up to 170 pounds.

And he took out Charles Oliveira.

And you guessed it, that was also by way of knockout.

And just like that, he was a two-weight world champion.

Not to mention he also has victories over Josh Emmett, a former interim title challenger, in a fight that would see Ilya Toporia secure a 50-42 scorecard and a submission win over the submission ace that is Bryce Mitchell, who was perennially ranked in the top 10 of the featherweight division before moving down to bantamweight, where he is now 2-0.

And a win that has aged like a fine wine is all the way back in Ilya Toporia's UFC debut when he defeated Yousef Zilal, who was on an eight-fight win streak heading into his bout recently against Aljamain Sterling in a battle for the top five position at featherweight where he would lose, but still holds on to the number eight spot at featherweight currently.

And Ilya Toporia has done all of this, has accomplished belts in two weight classes, has beaten numerous former world champion and title challengers.

And he is only 29 years old.

He's right now getting ready to enter the prime years that a lot of fighters have at 30, 31, 32, 33.

And here he is headlining an event at the freaking White House with an opportunity to defend a title successfully in a second weight class, something that not a lot of people can say that they have done.

He is one of the most followed superstars on social media, has even been recognized by Real Madrid, one of the biggest football teams in the world, and has an aura about him that is quite truly unprecedented right now in the current state of the UFC across its champions.

And what's even crazier is that he essentially speaks these victories into existence.

The damn guy was celebrating his victory against Charles Oliveira before the fight even took place.

He is the closest thing we have seen to the version of Conor McGregor once labeled as Mystic Mac, and if he continues his winning ways and goes down this path, he can continue to grow his stardom to places that only one man has ever grown it before in this sport, and that is Conor McGregor himself.

And I also think it's worth noting that this is the first time that we're going to see Ilya Toporia compete since June 28th of last year, almost a full year on the shelf, which definitely does suck considering he literally won a title in a second weight class on that night last summer.

So I'm really hoping that this kicks starts a long stretch of activity for Ilya where we can still see multiple years and fights out of him at the top of his game.