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UFC 323 full pre-fight press conference faceoffs<\/p>\n

All five main card matchups on Saturday’s UFC 323 pay-per-view had faceoffs following pre-fight press conference<\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS \u2013 Alexandre Pantoja and Joshua Van locked eyes for the first time since their in-cage staredown in June at Thursday’s UFC 323<\/a> pre-fight press conference.<\/p>\n

Pantoja (30-5 MMA, 14-3 UFC) takes on arguably his most compelling test as champion in the form of 23-year-old surging contender Van (15-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC), who is eager to prevent the Brazilian from logging a fifth consecutive flyweight title defense when they meet in Saturday’s co-main event at T-Mobile Arena (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2\/ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX).<\/p>\n

The confidence from both sides was evident when they answered questions from media about the fight, then neither backed down when they got in front of each other.<\/p>\n

Check out the video above to see the Pantoja vs. Van faceoff from the UFC 323 press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 323 full pre-fight press conference faceoffs All five main card matchups on Saturday’s UFC 323 pay-per-view had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[137020,137021,11040,76,49,48,641,1458,1483,4225,1262,638,44,1460,1333,1345,137022,1334,82,865,640,66312,1459],"class_list":["post-326744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-137020","tag-alexandre","tag-alexandre-pantoja","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-las","tag-las-vegas","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-nv","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-pantoja","tag-positive","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-323","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}