# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-van
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:08.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-van"
name: "Joshua Van"
slug: "joshua-van"
description: "Joshua Van Bawi Thawng is a Burmese and American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Flyweight Champion. Van is the first fighter from Myanmar to sign with the promotion. At UFC 323, he became the UFC's second Asian-born male champion and the first champion to be born in the 2000s. As of June 23, 2026, he is #11 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings."
tagline: "Burmese-American mixed martial artist"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "2001-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.73940266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JoshuaVanBT"
    handle:    "JoshuaVanBT"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/thefearlessmma1/"
    handle:    "thefearlessmma1"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E6%9B%B8%E4%BA%9E%C2%B7%E8%8C%83"
    title: "約書亞·范"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جوشوا فان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョシュア・ヴァン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AF%E1%80%97%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA"
    title: "ယောရှုဗန်"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Van"
    title: "Joshua Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Ван, Джошуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131411649"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump