The flyweight king, Joshua Van is a cardio nightmare for opponents, shown by the final round stats in recent fights.<\/p>\n
The flyweight king, Joshua Van,<\/a> is a nightmare for his opponents. Not only is his output phenomenal, his accuracy sharp and his power stunning, but he also carries all of these attributes late on in fights.<\/p>\n The statistics show that, since becoming champion, he’s finished Tatsuro Taira in the fifth round and knocked down Alexandre Pantoja<\/a> in the fifth round, a knockdown that arguably won him the fight at UFC<\/a> 331.<\/p>\n Before this, he knocked down Brandon Royval in the third and final round of their epic battle and recorded a third round finish of \u00a0Bruno Gustavo da Silva in June of last year.<\/p>\n When opponents think that Van cannot keep his output up, he does and does so with devastating power.<\/p>\n Final Round Output – Last Three Fights<\/p>\n In his most recent fight at UFC 331, Joshua Van’s cardio made the difference in the final round. He attempted 97 strikes at an accuracy of 59%, landing 57. He outstruck Pantoja in a big way, who landed just 38 strikes.<\/p>\n He scored a knockdown in the final round, which could have swayed the judges in his favour.<\/p>\n Against Taira, he landed 27 strikes in the final round. The caveat to that lower number is that he finished the fight in 1:32, which proves that his power carries late into the fight.<\/p>\n Ignoring the first Pantoja fight as it ended via injury in the first 26 seconds, we skip ahead to look at the fight that got Van a title shot, his battle with Royval.<\/p>\n He landed 80 significant strikes in the final five minutes, but again, one of those strikes that he landed saw him score a knockdown and ultimately get his hand raised in an extremely close fight.<\/p>\n If Van can keep up his excellent record of late finishes and big output in the fifth round, he’ll be a threat for the entire 25 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flyweight king, Joshua Van is a cardio nightmare for opponents, shown by the final round stats in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33997,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-905623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-joshua-van","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905623","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=905623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}