Michael "Venom" Page

But for me, MMA was just never going to be a thing that I'd ever see myself in.

Yeah.

I've always seen it as, I guess, like your average fan back in the day and some fans now, of like, ass brutal, man.

Right.

And again, I'm a points fighter.

Like, I don't see myself being good enough to, or tough enough to fight these guys.

What changed?

Obviously, I had a successful career in the kickboxing, but I...

didn't really go anywhere.

It's like, you're fighting the same people, like the amount of times me and Raymond have fought, and we were like some of the top two guys, like we're both in the competition, like we both walk in the room, everyone was like, oh my God, these guys gonna fight, like we were the guys.

but I'm fighting the same people and it's just like everything, everyone hoping that you're going to lose or your fans are kind of like supporting you.

And then I come back to reality, come off a plane, I traveled, I fought all the, you know, the whole week or whatever, won a world title and I've come back home and then,

nothing I come back home to just me being myself just me being me which I'm okay with but there's no recognition there was no sponsorship I paid to do everything and I loved it

And if I could choose the route again, I'd still do it because I absolutely loved it.

But there comes a point, I'm getting older and it comes to a point where I have to, and I'm now starting to, at the time I'm a kid, but now it's getting to the point where I have to work.

And so now it's like, I can't do this forever.

But at the same time,

I know I want to compete for a living.

I just didn't know what, in what.

So then I said to myself, okay, cool.