Contrary to popular belief, Michael
Page claims a fight against Stephen
Thompson could be “boring.”
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Page made his
Ultimate Fighting Championship debut at UFC
299 on March 9 against Kevin
Holland. “Venom” completely outclassed the American on the feet
over the course of three rounds, also putting on a show with his
signature showboating. While he believes he could have gotten the
finish, Page thinks he has done enough to draw potential opponents
rather than him having to chase anyone.
At the moment, Page doesn’t have a particular opponent in mind.
“Nobody specific,” he told Sportsnet “I don’t care to call anybody’s name.
I feel like I put a spotlight on myself, there will be people that
are drawn to me. I want that challenge, so let’s go from
there.”
Page’s performance against Holland immediately gave rise to talks
of a booking with fellow elite striker Stephen
Thompson. However, Page claims that a clash between the two
could lead to an anticlimactic outcome. According to the former
Bellator star, the matchup of two precision strikers could end up
in a game of stalking marked with inactivity.
“You know what’s interesting and I always [say] this, a positive
and a positive doesn’t always make a positive,” Page said. “Because
we are such similar-styled fighters, it could potentially be a
boring fight because we’re going to be faking, we’re going to know
so much. We’re going to be reading so much between each other, that
only really elite athletes are going to look at it and be like, ‘Oh
okay, I see what just happened.’ But nothing much is happening. So
I don’t actually think it’s going to be a great fight, and I love
that guy too much to want to kick him. I don’t know. Like I said,
the future, we’re all prizefighters, so whatever happens, happens.
But for right now, that’s not really a focus.”