After a stellar 2025, Michael Page has a reasonably good idea about when he’ll be getting back to work.
He just doesn’t have any idea whom it’ll be against – or even in what weight class it’ll be.
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Page (24-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC) will hit two years in the UFC in March. “MVP” made his way there a year after his final fight for Bellator, where he went 17-2 over a decade of work. He beat Kevin Holland in his promotional debut, and after a loss to Ian Machado Garry, he bounced back with 2025 wins over Shara Magomedov and former middleweight title challenger Jared Cannonier.
Page said after that win, he was hoping to go back to welterweight, the division in which he fought Holland and Garry. But finding opponents at 170 pounds? It’s been tricky, he said.
“I’m in two divisions. I said I want to be at welterweight,” Page recently told the Shxts ‘n’ Gigs podcast in the U.K. “I’ve taken a spur-of-the-moment at middleweight fight with Shara ‘Bullet’ – I didn’t mind. Then I was like, ‘OK, give me a welterweight fight.’ Nobody’s available. ‘OK, give me another middleweight fight.’ They gave me another middleweight fight (against Cannonier). Cool. ‘Give me a welterweight fight.’ Nobody’s available. How can nobody be available? This is literally what I’m getting messaged back.
“(I said), ‘OK, this guy.’ I kid you not: There was a fight the other day. Quite a few welterweights were performing. He just won a fight spectacularly. I messaged (the matchmakers): ‘That’s a great fight for me in London.’ ‘Oh, we’ve got plans for him.’ The guy just stepped out of the cage. I’m already for months, and you don’t have plans for me, but you have plans for him? Something’s going on.”
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Page does figure he’ll be on the show at The O2 in his home city of London when the UFC returns there March 21. UFC Fight Night 271 (Paramount+) is set for that date with a Movsar Evloev vs. Lerone Murphy featherweight headliner.
Page is 6-1 in his career when fighting at home in London, though he’s yet to fight there in the UFC.
Page is shooting the sequel to “Road House,” which wraps soon, and said that schedule would’ve interfered with a fight camp right now, anyway. But the March date is going to be one he plans to hit.
“My likely next fight is going to be … the 21st of March. I’m a big name over here, they want me to fight, but they still haven’t got any opponent. ‘So yeah, you’re definitely going to fight in March, but we’re trying to find you an opponent.'”
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