Joshua Van hasn’t seen Alexandre Pantoja fight far away if the former gets a crack at the flyweight championship on his next outing.
Alexandre Pantoja vs Joshua Van
In an interview with Nolan King A lovely junkieVan covered several subjects in the wake of his highly impressive show during UFC International Combat Week. In UFC 317, Van played an incredible barn burner match against the then-candidate Brandon Roybal’s 125 pound candidate, with the former defeating the latter by unanimous decision on outings that won the fight of the night.
In June alone, the two massive shows that won the statement in the last two pay-per-views of the promotion, earning Van Vaulting 11 spots in the final ranking update, appearing to be the following as a rift in gold rising to one competitor spot: When asked to view a clash with the dominant flyweight champion, Pantoja goes, Van said
“I’ll finish him. I don’t know what kind of round it will be, but I’ll finish him for sure.”
When asked, are you excited about the 5th round? ” By King in a follow-up question, Van rebutted,
“Yeah, but I won’t go for the five rounds.”
His chance to connect Joshua Van and John Jones records
Joshua Van has made it clear to many that he wants a shot on the belt of Alexandre Pantoja before the fall season enters. The 23-year-old candidate breaks into being 24 on October 10th, and if he wins a strap by that day, Van will be tied with John Jones for the record of the youngest champion in UFC history.
Jones achieved this feat at UFC 128 in March 2011, finishing a bit of Mauricio “Shogun” Lua, slightly above the mid-range mark in Round 3 after unleashing a strike torrent on the Brazilian champion.
Before Jones won the light heavyweight gold, Jose Aldo was the youngest promotional champion ever when the UFC won the WEC. Aldo held WEC Gold in Featherweight and was inserted as the UFC’s first featherweight champion when Aldo was 24 years old.