Joshua Van remembers asking his mother why they had to live in Houston. Why couldn’t they just go back home where things were familiar?
He was 12 years old at the time, and Van wanted to go back to where he lived the first decade of his life, in Myanmar. Life wasn’t easy for an undersized pre-teen who spoke little English and was picked on during school for both of those attributes.
Looking back, the math adds up that he’d become the first Burmese fighter to compete in the UFC.
