UFC flyweight title contender Joshua Vann hit again at those that imagine he’s too younger for a championship alternative.
This weekend at UFC 323, Joshua Vann takes on Alexandre Pantoja within the co-main occasion of the evening. The 2 will struggle for the world flyweight championship, and at simply 24 years previous, Vann has an opportunity to turn into one of many youngest champions in UFC historical past. After all, many followers, specialists and fellow fighters query his skill to tackle Pantoja, who will most likely go down as one of many best flyweight champions of all time – with maybe the one man forward of him being Demetrius Johnson.
Joshua Vann has needed to ask lots about his age and expertise stage in comparison with Pantoja, and as you may think about, he is a bit of uninterested in it. In a latest interview forward of struggle evening, he stated this concerning the matter:
Joshua Vann responds to critics forward of UFC 323
“They stated the identical factor in opposition to Roybal: he’s too younger, they’re speeding him, all that,” Vann instructed MMA Combating. “However, come on, I’ve like 9 fights within the UFC, what am I speculated to do, wait, I’m younger?
“I need to struggle for the belt. I need to struggle the champion. I do not suppose they’re speeding me. If I had my method, I might have (fighted) for the title years in the past. Mentally and bodily, I feel it is the right time. I am well-prepared proper now.”
“Pantoja, I by no means thought of him even after the struggle was determined,” Vann stated. “Now that we’re in struggle camp, I am beginning to take a look at him. I am a one-fight-at-a-time kind of man. I do not need to give attention to everybody else and issues like that.”
“I do not even know half the division. I do not even know the names of half the individuals in my division. I am combating this man, so I am taking a look at issues like this man. Proper now I am targeted on Pantoja.”
Quoted by MMA Combating
