Is Joshua van de Man to deduct UFC champion Alexandre Pantoja?
Time will learn it, but if we know something, it is that Myanmar's Joshua will probably get the next title shot at 125 pounds.
From the flying weight ranking a few months ago, the 23-year-old van shot up to #1 in the world after beating former title challenger Brandon Royval on UFC 317 in June.
Van Bonde his shot immediately thereafter and received a face-off with champion Alexandre Pantoja, who also won that night.
The wrestling style of Pantoja is insanely difficult to beat and it will be very interesting to see how Van's Game translates into his. Van has 81% Takedown defense and has landed the highest strikes per minute in the UFC at 8.86.
The only person who has been able to stop in the UFC so far won just last weekend.
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Charles Johnson says that the former enemy can cause Joshua of Alexandre Pantoja problems
Van has an almost perfect record of 8-1 in the UFC, where his only loss comes to Charles Johnson 13 months ago at UFC Denver.
Van had a considerable start of the fight, but was caught with an uppercut in the final round, which was the first KO loss of his career.
Johnson, that Lone'er Kavanagh at UFC Shanghai Ko'er Ko'er Kavanagh, believes that there is still the same hunter who fought him that night. Looking at a fight with Pantoja Stylistic, Johnson says that success can.
“I definitely think he could cause Pantoja problems,” Johnson said about in an interview with Bloody Elbow.
“Pantoja is phenomenal from the back. If he gets your back and he gets his hooks in, he can finish everyone in the world from that position. He is very, very strong there.
“His Takedown attack is not that big,” said Johnson about Pantoja.
“He has to push you to the cage to get that Takedown. And what he often does in fights is that he plague people in the direction of the cage, brings them to the cage and uses the cage to bring people down.
“So with Van Van van has that forward pressure. I think it's a good matchup for Van. I think it's a good matchup for both,” Johnson added.
“They both have a clear path of success. Law for, keep it in the middle, keep pushing them back and keep them in front of him. He could touch them all night, I think.”
“With Pantoja, his style is just a bully. He is the biggest bully throughout MMA,” Johnson added.
“So on that night it will be who is popping up and who can keep the fight in their empire. And Pantoja has to win aids and Josh too.”
Charles Johnson's advice to Joshua van before Title Fight
Van has to go into the championship rounds, but Johnson suggests that his former rival 'was probably built for five rounds'.
“That will be fun to see, because we have seen Pantoja slightly slow down in the fourth and fifth [round]But not much. He is still struggling very hard and still gets people catching … “
When it is time for him fighting Pantoja, Johnson says that his best advice would be to keep the fight in the middle of the Octagon.
“Cody Durden has shown us a lot,” Johnson called a common opponent between him and Van.
'Cody is a high -level wrestler and when [Van] Held it in the middle, Cody couldn't take him down.
“I think that's a big thing. If you see this, keep it in the middle and I think you'll have good luck,” said Johnson.