Joe sits down with Michael "Venom" Page, a professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.www.ufc.com/athlete/michael-page Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan 50% off your first box at https://www.thefarmersdog.com/rogan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The most enigmatic, difficult dude to solve in all of MMA. That's you, man.
Bro, you know what? I always, I want to start simply because... what you have done for me specifically, I get a lot of criticism, a lot of hate, and especially obviously jumping when I first got into the MMA world. New to me, you know, I'm just like, okay, let me just be myself, do my thing.
First fight goes well, land this crazy kick, go viral, and I get nothing but hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. But then having prominent figures like yourself, that constantly have been championing my style, championing the points element of things. I just appreciate you for that.
Oh, my pleasure, brother. I appreciate you. It's almost like we called for you. Because there was a time in the early days of MMA, like in the early 2000s, where I was like, this is what's missing. What's missing is point fighters. And people would, like, mock me. I'd be like, no, no, no, no, no. Like, I've sparred with these dudes. You can't hit them. It's a different thing.
I'm like, they have a very specific skill, that skill of closing distance and being elusive. It's not like any other sport. It's almost like fencing and MMA and martial arts combined.
Yeah, I always tell people that, like...
most of the combat sports in terms of kickboxing the full contact side of things is more to do with the there's a fixation on power knocking people out whereas our element is just the speed element yeah it's getting in and getting out yeah get in touch like you said the tag tag kind of feel fencing similar kind of footwork and yeah just not many people had decided to cross over to any kind of full contact world really
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