Michael Page happy if Shara Magomedov shoots

Michael Web page believes Shara Magomedov received’t resort to grappling him – at the very least not in the beginning.

Web page (22-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) takes on Magomedov (15-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) in a middleweight bout that co-headlines UFC Struggle Evening 250 on Feb. 1 at ANB Area in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ESPN+). Web page is accustomed to having to defensively wrestle in his fights and even needed to in his most up-to-date outing towards fellow striker Ian Machado Garry at UFC 303 in June. Web page misplaced the struggle by unanimous resolution.

However keeping off takedowns towards Magomedov? “MVP” isn’t positive if that would be the case.

“If he does (shoot), it means the struggle goes my method and aggressively my method,” Web page mentioned on the “Imagine You Me” podcast. “As a result of I feel he might be much more cussed in believing in his potential. So I feel I’d undoubtedly be touchdown some loopy pictures if he decides to go for a takedown.

“As a result of in his thoughts, he believes he’s the perfect on the subject of the placing sport. It’s going to take a couple of knocks earlier than he decides to vary that, and it could be too little, too late. So I doubt it, however I feel he’ll be very bloodied up if he’s going for a takedown.”

Magomedov is coming off a Knockout of the 12 months contender at UFC 308, when he landed a double backfist end of Armen Petrosyan. 12 of his 15 skilled wins have come by knockout.

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