Joshua Van ready to defend flyweight title: Your story is cheap

One of the youngest UFC champions successful history, Joshua Van, has made it wide that helium volition not fell down the belt. Although helium won the loop successful a alternatively awkward way, the caller flyweight champion wants to instantly region the stigma and is acceptable to support the rubric successful little than 2 months. In doing so, helium has further inflamed the already tense concern astatine the apical of the 125-pound division.

Manel Kape pushed his sanction into the spotlight past play with an awesome triumph implicit Brandon Royval, stopping him by TKO successful the archetypal circular astatine UFC connected ESPN 73. After the fight, Kape made it wide to Van: "Your communicative is cheap, let's settee it successful the cage similar existent men. Houston, Texas. UFC, marque it up to me."

Van, who has a nonrecreational grounds of 15–2, with a 9–1 successful the UFC, won the loop earlier this period astatine UFC 323. The combat against Alexandre Pantoja ended successful conscionable 26 seconds owed to injury, by method knockout, which opened a fig of questions, chiefly astir the wellness of his hostile and the anticipation of a speedy rematch.

Van's absorption and plans

Joshua Van gave a wide answer; helium does not privation to support the rubric connected the shelf, and the projected day for the combat suits him. The caller champion announced that helium is acceptable to combat arsenic aboriginal arsenic February 7 astatine UFC Fight Night 266 successful Houston, the metropolis wherever helium presently lives.

That lawsuit already has a main lawsuit announced – a clash betwixt erstwhile middleweight champion Sean Strickland and Anthony Hernandez astatine the Toyota Center. It was antecedently confirmed that our combatant Ante Delija volition besides execute astatine the aforesaid event. The question remains whether the UFC volition acceptable Van vs. Kape arsenic the main event, which would beryllium uncommon astatine an unnumbered Fight Night event.

One happening is for sure; Joshua Van does not shy distant from a challenge. If a woody is reached, the UFC could get an explosive showdown betwixt 2 wholly antithetic styles, and the caller epoch of the flyweight part would amusement that it volition not beryllium cautious astatine all, but aggressive, accelerated and uncompromising.