Bellator is gearing up for back-to-back events in Uncasville, Connecticut, this weekend. On Friday (February 15, 2019), Bellator 215 takes place from the Mohegan Sun Arena. It’s headlined by a heavyweight match-up between Matt Mitrione and Sergei Kharitonov. The following night, Bellator 216 is headlined Michael “Venom” Page and Paul Daley in a welterweight bout. […]
Bellator is gearing up for back-to-back events in Uncasville, Connecticut, this weekend.
On Friday (February 15, 2019), Bellator 215 takes place from the Mohegan Sun Arena. It’s headlined by a heavyweight match-up between Matt Mitrione and Sergei Kharitonov. The following night, Bellator 216 is headlined Michael “Venom” Page and Paul Daley in a welterweight bout.
In the co-main event Mirko Cro Cop will face Roy Nelson at heavyweight. Cheick Kongo will also compete on the main card, as he’ll face Vitaly Minakov. Bellator held face-offs for Bellator 215 and Bellator 216 in New York earlier today (Wed. February 13, 2019). Check them out here:
First up will be Bellator 215 on Friday night. Check out the full card below:
Ryan Bader’s next Bellator heavyweight title challenger isn’t set in stone. Many thought that the winner of Vitaly Minakov vs. Cheick Kongo this Saturday night (Feb. 16) would determine Bader’s next challenger. The heavyweight clash w…
Ryan Bader’s next Bellator heavyweight title challenger isn’t set in stone. Many thought that the winner of Vitaly Minakov vs. Cheick Kongo this Saturday night (Feb. 16) would determine Bader’s next challenger. The heavyweight clash will serve as Bellator 216’s co-main event. Scott Coker Says Winner Of Minakov vs. Kongo Not Guaranteed Title Shot Speaking […]
Ryan Bader’s next Bellator heavyweight title challenger isn’t set in stone. Many thought that the winner of Vitaly Minakov vs. Cheick Kongo this Saturday night (Feb. 16) would determine Bader’s next challenger. The heavyweight clash w…
Ryan Bader’s next Bellator heavyweight title challenger isn’t set in stone. Many thought that the winner of Vitaly Minakov vs. Cheick Kongo this Saturday night (Feb. 16) would determine Bader’s next challenger. The heavyweight clash will serve as Bellator 216’s co-main event. Scott Coker Says Winner Of Minakov vs. Kongo Not Guaranteed Title Shot Speaking […]
In the main event of Bellator 216, the long-anticipated match between Michael Venom Page (MVP and Paul Daley will take place in the first round of the Welterweight Grand Prix. One of the many factors that make the fight as hyped as it is is because of …
In the main event of Bellator 216, the long-anticipated match between Michael Venom Page (MVP and Paul Daley will take place in the first round of the Welterweight Grand Prix. One of the many factors that make the fight as hyped as it is is because of the animosity between the two Englishmen. One of […]
Michael “Venom” Page and Paul “Semtex” Daley will face each other in the main event of this weekend’s Bellator 216. The bout will also serve as a first round match-up in the welterweight Grand Prix. Not to mention Page vs. Daley marks the high-point of British MMA. Making an appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, […]
Michael “Venom” Page and Paul “Semtex” Daley will face each other in the main event of this weekend’s Bellator 216.
The bout will also serve as a first round match-up in the welterweight Grand Prix. Not to mention Page vs. Daley marks the high-point of British MMA.
Making an appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, Page recalled when Daley tried to start a riot at a Bellator event back in May of 2017.
”In my opinion, Paul’s a very childish person, a very impulsive person,” Page said. “Look at his history, he’s been kicked off the UFC before through that very same impulsive action. Especially when he loses, he’s a very sore loser. Even now my coach is like ‘After the fight, all goes to plan, you have to stay on guard.’ The fight’s not over because the bell’s done, he’s that kind of person that it may continue, it may spill over.”
Watch the Bellator 179 incident below.
Page also blamed Daley and his quick temper for the reasons as to why the fighters did not face off during their press conference appearances. “MVP” also put the blame squarely on Daley regarding how long it took to finally make this fight happen.
”After every interaction that we had like that, Bellator was like ‘Let’s make it happen,’” Page said. “And he’s ‘No no no, not yet.’ Okay. So then he has another fight that he wins and afterward he’s calling me out again. So we’re like okay, send the contract, let’s go. He says to Bellator ‘Nah nahnah, don’t want to do it yet.’ And there was just multiple multiple excuses as to why we shouldn’t.”
”Some people say it worked out for the best because it makes it build a bit longer and so on. I think it’s just as big. It would have been as big anyway. And honest opinion, because the tournament is involved, I think that had a massive part to play as to why it’s in America as opposed to the UK. If he had taken the fight when he was supposed to, especially after that nonsense, if he’d took the fight then, we’d be in the UK having this fight and it’d have been a massive fight.”
Page insists that he didn’t start this feud with Daley. However, he is more than happy to end it on Saturday night.
”I can be frustrating as a fighter, let alone as a person,” Page said. “I can frustrate people, I can get into people’s heads. And I feel like that’s what I was able to do then. He’s trying to backtrack now which I don’t understand. He’s trying to play it all calm, ‘There’s no real issues between us’, trying to play it all Mr. Nice Guy. I don’t get it but it comes across as fake because the second I say anything he bites, there’s an immediate explosion in him. And it is what it is, I think I’m living in his head right now and it’s gonna take its toll through this whole promotional period and then we get to the fight.”
Watch the entire Michael “Venom” Page interview below.
Bellator 216 will feature one of the most anticipated fights in Bellator history when Paul Daley faces Michael Venom Page in the first round of the Welterweight Grand Prix. It is a fight that has been years in the making and has taken its fair share of…
Bellator 216 will feature one of the most anticipated fights in Bellator history when Paul Daley faces Michael Venom Page in the first round of the Welterweight Grand Prix. It is a fight that has been years in the making and has taken its fair share of hurdle-jumping to become finalized. And even as we […]