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And to kick off Sunday's UFC Freedom 250, we've got your first look at the Octagon Girls!
It's not just the fighters who are fired up for the UFC's Freedom 250 event -- the Octagon girls are, too -- and a special event requires a special outfit!
TMZ Sports talked to Chrissy Blair earlier this week, just after the 'fits were debuted on social media ... with the longtime Octagon girl revealing she actually helped with the looks.
"We were very much involved and I can't wait to see it come to life. And I think all the sequins and the materials like the velvet and the suede and all that, I think it's going to look really cool on camera at night, too."
A bunch of great fights aside, Freedom 250 celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States of America ... so the girls' outfits needed to be special, and patriotic, and that required a big-time designer.
"Marina is the designer. She's based in L.A. and her team is amazing. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that she's Carrie Underwood's designer, but she is. She did [UFC] Noche as well. They're incredible."
Chrissy says the process was anything but tedious -- it was great.
"I love it. I'm a girl, so I love dress up. And yeah, I just kind of felt like Barbie going in there, like Americana Barbie. So I'm like, this is great. We have boots that match the outfits and it's all custom. So what's not to love?"
Threads aside, Freedom 250 -- an event more than a year in the making and headlined by Justin Gaethje and Ilia Topuria -- goes down Sunday evening from the South Lawn of the White House ... and Chrissy is pumped.
"There's no way my wildest dreams I would have ever thought that one, I'd be working for the UFC for a decade and two, that I would ever get to work a fight at the White House. So it's only a once-in-a-career event, and I'm super excited!"
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If Mother Nature is planning to crash UFC Freedom 250, Dana White has a message for her ... don't bother.
Charliecaught up with the UFC boss Thursday on Capitol Hill ahead of this weekend's historic fight card on the White House South Lawn ... and while plenty of eyes are on the forecast, Dana doesn't sound concerned in the slightest.
Before this cute kid smiling on the soccer field turned into a professional fighter, he was just doin' backflips in the backyard and growing up in Montana ...
He currently stands at #3 in the UFC bantamweight rankings and is gearing up to fight at UFC Freedom 250 ...
The UFC has infiltrated the FBI headquarters ... with fighters like Justin Gaethje using the agency's digs to prepare for Sunday night's Freedom 250 card at the White House.
The Highlight's setup was put on display in the promotion's new "Embedded" vlog that dropped on Wednesday ... when he casually said the FBI opened its doors to him ahead of his title fight with Ilia Topuria.
Gaethje said the makeshift gym has everything he needs to train -- mats and bags -- but it's gotta be extra cool rolling around on top of the FBI seal.
President Trump's administration says it won't tap out on UFC Freedom 250 -- the cage match set to take place on the White House lawn this weekend -- insisting a lawsuit seeking to block the event came in way too late to stop the fight.
Here's the deal ... earlier this week, two Virginia residents filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior, hoping to get a judge to put the event in a chokehold and force a submission ... calling UFC Freedom 250 "deeply corrupt."
Now, the Trump administration has filed its response, which is mainly focused on timing ... pointing out the fight's been in the works for about a year and the plaintiffs waited until the last minute to file.
