Michael "Venom" Page

like he was for me he was the more talented one but i mean like every single weekend we're driving to birmingham to manchester to scotland we did trips everywhere like my dad started the gym and he was going around everywhere and every weekend there's like three hours that way four hours this way coming back and i'm just kind of boss lip and they're just the medals are just like bling

like they got all the medals and they're talking about how they spin kick some guy and they did this and I'm just like yeah yeah cool cool story and I got destroyed for four or five years and

When I got to a qualifiers in Birmingham, it was an IASCA qualifiers and I managed to win that, which that in itself was success for me.

I'm like, oh man, I qualified to go to the world championships.

I've already done well.

Everyone else, they were supposed to do it.

They're good enough to have the expectation of themselves.

So then I get to the world championships and the way they seed fighters in the US was very different to the UK at the time.

So I had one fight, another fight, another fight and I'm winning.

And I'm like happy.

I'm like, I must be in like the finals already.

And then they're like, okay, bring the Cedars fighters in.

And then it's like a shitload of fighters join your mat.

And I'm like, oh.

My dad would tell me, he's like, yeah, I think you're in the semis.

I think you're in the quarters.

And then he was like, bro, just keep fighting.

He couldn't work out.

I don't know.

Seriously.