{"id":321545,"date":"2025-12-01T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321545\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:44:08","slug":"ufc-323s-joshua-van-unfazed-fights-pantoja-with-no-gameplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321545\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 323\u2019s Joshua Van unfazed, fights Pantoja with \u2018no gameplan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fast-rising No. 1 contender Joshua Van will compete for his first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title this weekend (Sat., Dec. 6, 2025), when he challenges Flyweight king Alexandre Pantoja in the co-main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/395898\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-date-location-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 323<\/a> inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Van isn\u2019t most fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t have any game plan, to be honest, it\u2019s wherever the fight goes,\u201d Van told Ariel Helwani. \u201cYou can make game plans and things like that, but come fight day, it can be a whole different game. You know what I mean?Whatever he brings, I\u2019ll be ready. If it wants to strike, we\u2019ll strike. If he wants to go to the ground, I\u2019m ready for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 24-year-old did admit he\u2019s watched plenty of tape on Pantoja, but he refuses to lock himself into a rigid approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI just don\u2019t want to focus on one thing \u2014 it\u2019s wherever the fight goes,\u201d Van said. \u201cWhat we see on TV and what happens when we\u2019re locked in the cage together is different. I\u2019m the type of guy who likes to adjust to his style, so I\u2019ll adjust to whatever he brings that day. I\u2019m knocking him out inside three rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out who else is fighting on UFC 323 right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/395898\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-date-location-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fast-rising No. 1 contender Joshua Van will compete for his first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title this weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-321545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}