No walkout music accompanied Bellator welterweight star Michael “Venom” Page to the cage at Bellator 258. He was there for business, and with no fans present, nothing else.
Page entertained instead with his performance, another highlight-reel knockout in a fight against grizzled vet Derek Anderson.
Then he prepared himself for the usual criticism.
“Because of how I do things with ease, I think he’s now just become a can, but not because he’s not an amazing fighter, not because he’s a tough MMA fighter, but because of how I make people look when I’m in there,” Page told reporters after the event on Friday at Mohegan Sun Arena.