Michael Page frustrated w/ career development

[Wild]

Michael Page’s career hasn’t exactly gone the way he or his devoted followers had hoped after more than four years in the game.

Long layoffs, injuries and a lack of real competition have seemingly kept Page’s career in neutral for longer than it should have for an athlete with his charisma, talent and fan base.

Page (9-0 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) hopes to kick things into a new gear at Bellator 153 on April 22 when he takes on Jeremie Holloway (7-1 MMA, 0-1 BMMA) in a welterweight bout at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The main card, including Page’s bout, airs on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie.

The key to making that happen, however, comes down to staying healthy.

“I actually wish I had fought more,” Page told MMAjunkie. “I feel like I should be in double figures already for fights. Things happen for a reason, and it’s hard to complete change your training to be careful for injuries. You fight well because of the type of training you do. It’s very difficult. I get regular treatment, and I get checked out as much as possible so that I’m aware of things that are going on.”

LINK: Frustrated with the career development of Bellator's Michael Page? Well he is, too

 

[Clappin'Daddys]

Gonzalez would have been a solid step up for him, but he had to get injured. I hope he does well in his next fight

 

[TheEmperorRises]

If he wins this next fight, he should pick a name guy and head hunt him- call him out on Twitter, grab the mic from Jimmy Smith and call him out in the center of the cage, whatever.

 

[Clappin'Daddys]

If he wins this next fight, he should pick a name guy and head hunt him- call him out on Twitter, grab the mic from Jimmy Smith and call him out in the center of the cage, whatever.

I truly feel that Gonzalez is his next fight. Gonzalez is on a run, he is a good step up, and it'll probably be action packed. This fight needs to be next.

 

[Robbie Hart]

I'm sorry, bellator please work out something whereby I can view these fights for free on sky/uk.

I have never seen him fight and don't know a thing about him and I should. Just like some fighter called chandler, brooks, etc.

Also, for the money I pay, would like wsof somewhere so I can record and rewatch these fights.

@Emma B , @Leigh . can you help?

 

[Leigh]

I'm sorry, bellator please work out something whereby I can view these fights for free on sky/uk.

I have never seen him fight and don't know a thing about him and I should. Just like some fighter called chandler, brooks, etc.

Also, for the money I pay, would like wsof somewhere so I can record and rewatch these fights.

@Emma B , @Leigh . can you help?

Help with what? Viewing Bellator or Explaining who Michael Page is? I don't know anything about him either, I don't watch much MMA anymore.

If you want to watch events that are not shown in the UK, you'll probably have to find a download source.

 

[Robbie Hart]

Help with what? Viewing Bellator or Explaining who Michael Page is? I don't know anything about him either, I don't watch much MMA anymore.

If you want to watch events that are not shown in the UK, you'll probably have to find a download source.

That's what I thought, if it's on sky on one of the millions of channels......o doubt it but thought you might know but file this away...

 

[Gibberish]

"Things happen for a reason."

Grow up, no they don't.

 

[SongExotic2]

That's what I thought, if it's on sky on one of the millions of channels......o doubt it but thought you might know but file this away...

He's cocky like anderson silva but he hit's hard and stops folks. It's very suprising the ufc haven't snapped him up. I always expect him to get found out one of these days but he does the same shit and knocks muh fuggin out

 

[Ted Williams' head]

It seems like they've really dropped the ball on promoting the guy. For as exciting as he is, there should be way more buzz around him.

 

[BanMe]

Hmm. That's unfortunate. He's one of the reasons I watch bellator. I wonder if he has become victim to "zomg we just got new ufc guy"

 

[TheEmperorRises]

It seems like they've really dropped the ball on promoting the guy. For as exciting as he is, there should be way more buzz around him.

The tone of the article is more "the injuries have been unfortunate" than anything. I think they've promoted him fine (he us fighting on their biggest fight card of the year so far and will be one of the fighters they promote to sell the card), they just need to give him the big name headlining fights after this.

Here's some of his quotes from the article-

“I actually wish I had fought more,” Page told MMAjunkie. “I feel like I should be in double figures already for fights. Things happen for a reason, and it’s hard to complete change your training to be careful for injuries. You fight well because of the type of training you do. It’s very difficult. I get regular treatment, and I get checked out as much as possible so that I’m aware of things that are going on.”

“As a fighter you tend to ignore stuff; you feel pain in a certain area, and you just decide to avoid it or not get it checked out, and you fight through it,” he said. “It is important to have somebody pay attention to those things and actually go and get things checked out. Even down to the rehab, as well, it helps out. The rehab training can be very tedious and boring, but it’s important that you do it because it will help strengthen the areas that need tweaking”

“Once this one is out of the way it’s onward and upward, bigger and bigger names. I just want to fight more regularly and stay in shape.”

 

[FryedTakayama]

Yes we've all been frustrated with the cans he's been crushing. Still fun to watch though.