{"id":326086,"date":"2025-12-04T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:44:08","slug":"joshua-van-eats-mcdonalds-daily-during-ufc-323-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326086\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Van eats McDonald\u2019s daily during UFC 323 camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 1-ranked <\/a>Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight Joshua Van challenges Alexandre Pantoja for the 125-pound title this weekend (Sat., Dec. 6, 2025) in the co-main event of UFC 323<\/a> inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

As most fans know, being a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter is brutal, and many insist the fight itself is the easy part compared to the grind of training camp<\/a> \u2014 two-a-days, three-a-days<\/a>, sparring, recovery, and of course, strict dieting to survive the weight cut.<\/p>\n

But Van? He\u2019s making things a little harder on himself \u2026 by purposely eating fast food during camp. More specifically: McDonald\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI be doing a lot of stuff that I shouldn\u2019t be doing, but yeah, we\u2019re back, ready to be a champion,\u201d Van told Full Send MMA. \u201cI like to f\u2014k up sometimes, even with meals and things like that. I\u2019ll be f\u2014king up on purpose. I go to McDonald\u2019s every morning, and then at dinner, I\u2019ll eat clean. I get Big Macs for lunch, and then I get breakfast burritos, two hash browns, and orange juice \u2014 that\u2019s my breakfast every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI get tired of eating healthy stuff, man. It just looks too healthy,\u201d Van said. \u201cI train three times a day, so after my strength and conditioning, I\u2019ve got 30 minutes to get to the other gym \u2014 and McDonald\u2019s is in between. That\u2019s why I always stop there for burritos and hash browns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naturally, his coaches and teammates give him plenty of grief.<\/p>\n

Maybe being 24 years old with a lightning-fast metabolism helps him cut the weight \u2026 but he might want to enjoy this phase while it lasts.<\/p>\n

Between the daily McDonald\u2019s runs and \u201cnot having a gameplan<\/a>\u201d for his title fight, \u201cThe Fearless\u201d has his hands full at UFC 323. Still, he enters the bout riding a five-fight win streak<\/a> with major momentum after a recent Fight of the Year contender.<\/p>\n

For more UFC 323: \u201cMerab vs. Yan 2\u201d news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight Joshua Van challenges Alexandre Pantoja for the 125-pound title this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,174978,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-326086","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-323","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326086","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=326086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}