Michael "Venom" Page

Bro, you know what?

I always, I want to start simply because...

what you have done for me specifically, I get a lot of criticism, a lot of hate, and especially obviously jumping when I first got into the MMA world.

New to me, you know, I'm just like, okay, let me just be myself, do my thing.

First fight goes well, land this crazy kick, go viral, and I get nothing but hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

But then having prominent figures like yourself,

that constantly have been championing my style, championing the points element of things.

I just appreciate you for that.

Yeah, I always tell people that, like...

most of the combat sports in terms of kickboxing the full contact side of things is more to do with the there's a fixation on power knocking people out whereas our element is just the speed element yeah it's getting in and getting out yeah get in touch like you said the tag tag kind of feel fencing similar kind of footwork and yeah just not many people had decided to cross over to any kind of full contact world really

and he had the likes of Wonderboy Thompson.

He hated every moment of it.

I could feel it.

But that's just part of my style is that kind of frustrating people because it's just so unfamiliar.

For someone like yourself, you would kind of...

Being there, whether you're successful or not, you'd understand what's happening and you'd be calm enough still to be like, okay, I need to know how to figure this out because I've experienced this before.

For someone that's never experienced, and because there's few of us in the MMA world, who do you go to to train?

There's very few people that are really good at that.

Yeah.

And like I said, Wonderboy Thompson.