As we got on the phone on Monday, Joshua Van asked how I was doing.
I wasn’t the one who had to make weight in four days after a short training camp and then get into a fistfight on Saturday, so I was doing okay. Remarkably, so was Van.
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“Let's get it, man,” he said. “Fighting makes me happy.”
A lot of people say that, but this 22-year-old Texan means it. As proof, consider that when he got the call from manager Jason House to replace Kevin Borjas on less than two weeks’ notice against Edgar Chairez, he wasn’t in the gym preparing for his next bout.