UFC commentator Daniel Cormier has given his ideas on what the longer term ought to maintain for brand new UFC flyweight champion Joshua Van.
Within the co-main occasion of UFC 323 final weekend, Joshua Van stunned many by turning into the brand new king of the UFC flyweight division. In fact, the best way through which he did so was a bit anti-climactic, as former champion Alexandre Pantoja suffered an arm damage early within the combat that left him unable to proceed.
Alas, Joshua Van has labored exhausting to get thus far, and the 24-year-old celebrated such as you would count on any younger fighter to have fun if that they had simply change into a UFC world champion. Alas, with Pantoja now on the shelf, many are questioning what precisely goes to be subsequent for him.
In a current episode of his podcast with Chael Sonnen, Daniel Cormier defined why he thinks Joshua Van vs Tatsuro Taira ought to be subsequent.
Daniel Cormier’s view on Joshua Van’s rapid UFC future
Pantoja had been beating everyone, however now he’s going to be out for a bit,” Cormier stated on his “Good Man/Unhealthy Man” present with Chael Sonnen. “That was an actual damage. It is going to take a while. I imagine that Tatsuro Taira, after beating Brandon Moreno and ending Brandon Moreno, ought to be combating for the belt. I appeared over at Mick Maynard final night time (at UFC 323) and I stated to him, ‘Ebook them tomorrow.’
“He goes, ‘What do you imply?’ I am going, ‘Tatsuro Taira received hit 10 instances towards Brandon Moreno, nothing occurred.’ They had been boxing for about 45 seconds, he goes for a takedown, he results in that bizarre triangle place with Moreno, and so they keep there the entire spherical. … There’s no harm on both facet.
There are combat playing cards initially of the 12 months the place you could possibly say, hey, I do know Alexander Volkanovski has a combat on Feb. 1, usually we love to do two title fights on these pay-per-views. Why not make this the second combat (at UFC 325)? Tatsuro Taira and Joshua Van. Van received’t say no, you then flip them round.
“That’s two months since Pantoja received harm. Say the winner of that combat wants six months earlier than the subsequent combat, now you’re eight months publish Pantoja’s damage. Now you’ve both received him going into the rematch with Joshua Van, or he’s combating a model new champion. The entire weight class appears refreshed as a result of it stored transferring.”
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