{"id":552496,"date":"2026-03-22T03:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552496\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:59:12","slug":"michael-page-defends-forgettable-ufc-london-win-after-putting-fans-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552496\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Page Defends Forgettable UFC London Win After Putting Fans To Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Page had a rough outing inside UFC\u2019s Octagon earlier tonight (Sat., Mar. 21, 2026) at UFC London<\/a> LIVE on Paramount+ from inside the O2 Arena in London, England, even though the long-time MMA veteran walked away with a win. That\u2019s because \u201cVenom\u201d had another lackluster performance against an opponent, Sam Patterson, who \u201cdidn\u2019t want to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was supposed to be a showcase outing for Page as he was making his return to England. The former Bellator MMA star has had a good start to his UFC career on paper \u2014 including a 3-1 record \u2014 but he needed to ramp his efforts up and do whatever he could to find a finish. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned for Page as his three-round bout with Patterson was a complete dud.<\/p>\n

In fact, Page\u2019s walk to the Octagon was more exciting than anything that happened in the actual fight. See below:<\/p>\n

Page, who turns 39 next month, end up walking away with a unanimous decision win to push his UFC record to 4-1. However, the hometown favorite received some boos during his performance and without a finish inside of the Octagon it\u2019s getting harder to promote MVP<\/a> as the striking sensation he once was. Page himself already thinks UFC has it out for him so Saturday\u2019s outing could not have helped.<\/p>\n

After the fight, MVP briefly defended his performance on his way into the back as he blamed Patterson\u2019s lack of engagement for his UFC London snooze fest. Check it out below:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting more and more difficult when nobody really wants to engage,\u201d said Page. \u201cEveryone\u2019s on the back foot. It\u2019s more difficult to fight somebody that doesn\u2019t want to fight than fight someone difficult that wants to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on backstage, Page changed his tune and put some blame on himself. MVP knows he didn\u2019t put on his best performance and it showed. See below:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very disappointing from my own performance,\u201d said Page. \u201cI expect more from myself. It\u2019s not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

For complete UFC London results, coverage, and highlights click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Page had a rough outing inside UFC\u2019s Octagon earlier tonight (Sat., Mar. 21, 2026) at UFC London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,7788],"class_list":["post-552496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}