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Fight Report
Pre-fight analysis · prediction vs result
Joshua Van needed twenty-six seconds to take the flyweight division from Alexandre Pantoja, and the rematch asks whether that was a fluke or a verdict.
Twenty-six seconds. That is how long the first fight lasted, and it is the number every other number in this preview has to be read against. Alexandre Pantoja had defended the flyweight title repeatedly and beaten Kai Kara-France, Kai Asakura, Steve Erceg and Brandon Royval in a row before December 2025. Then Joshua Van hit him and the reign was over before the crowd had settled. The ratings have…
Van (17-2) is unbeaten across his last five, with knockouts of Pantoja in December and Tatsuro Taira in the fifth round in May, plus decisions over Brandon Royval and Rei Tsuruya. At 24 he is twelve years the younger man. His momentum score of 100.0 and 67.8 composite are both the higher figures here.
Pantoja (30-6) had won four straight before Van stopped him, submitting Kai Kara-France in the third in June 2025 and Kai Asakura in the second in December 2024. His 48.5 quality-of-victory leads Van's 43.8, and a 0.57 finish rate reflects a career of ending fights on the mat rather than the feet.
Whether Pantoja's 4.46 grappling can ever be applied — the first fight lasted twenty-six seconds
Pantoja's five-centimetre reach edge at identical height, and whether he uses it to enter safely
Van's 0.0 submission score against a man with two recent first- and second-round submissions
A twelve-year age gap, 24 against 36, in a division built on pace
Van's 100.0 momentum against a 48.5 quality-of-victory that still belongs to Pantoja
The head-to-head sample is twenty-six seconds long; it tells us almost nothing about rounds two and three
Van has never had to defend the chain wrestling and submission game that beat Kara-France and Asakura
This Fight — Statistics
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Combatrics radar — 6 fighting dimensions scored 0–10
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