Royval, who is not beyond his own bad luck and in injury struggles, is reportedly coming off a layoff where he was struggling with concussion issues.

Given my experience with concussions, I can tell you that they’re no laughing matter. That said, if Royval was able to make a solid recovery, then I have a hard time not leaning toward him here.

As someone who featured Van in my prospects to watch column prior to his arrival in the UFC, it’s safe to say that I’m a big fan of Myanmar native’s style and story.

However, Van hasn’t faced many experienced southpaws in his young career and has shown to struggle a bit with the archetype in his last loss to Charles Johnson. Van also likes to tempt fate with an insanely active schedule – something that we’ve seen have hard ceilings in both Donald Cerrone and Kevin Holland’s career.