“If it goes as planned, 2025 is the takeover year. We’re going to stay busy just like we did this year, maybe busier. I want to stay as active as possible.”
That is what Joshua Van told the late Thomas Gerbasi last December, ahead of his fight with Cody Durden at UFC 310. Still just 23 years old at the time, the flyweight prospect was only a couple months removed from defeating Edgar Chairez at Noche UFC, readying for his fourth fight of the 2024 and sixth trip into the Octagon since debuting 18 months earlier.