- [audience cheering]
- [Mary Mary singing "Go Get It"]
♪ It's like you looking through a telescope ♪
♪ You see where you going to be ♪
- MAN: And now set to make his way to the cage,
Jeremie "Hit Em" Holloway!
- ♪ Because they built your muscle ♪
- SEAN: Nine months ago here at Mohegan Sun,
we were introduced to The Leprechaun, Roger Carroll.
Jeremie Holloway was introduced to him a couple of years ago,
working out in Charlotte, pondering a career in MMA.
He wandered over and asked Roger Carroll
what that crazy jujitsu thing was all about.
There is Roger Carroll, and 2 minutes later
like most guys who ask about it for the first time,
he was tapping. Two minutes later,
he was tapping again and again and again,
and that's the day the true MMA fighter Jeremie Holloway
was born, 7 and 1.
He's barely a year into his career, Jimmy,
but that career changes dramatically with a win tonight.
- JIMMY: That's right.
He says, "I have the strategy to do it."
He said, "Mike 'Venom' Page relies on space
in order to do what he does.
I need to take that space away from him, make it a brawl
and not become a spectator like a lot of other fighters do.
- SEAN: I asked Jeremie Holloway,
"What do you do?
What do you change when you're going in against a fighter
that fights like nobody else in the world?
What do you change? "He said, "Nothing."
- ♪ Get your blessing ♪ ♪ It's time ♪
- ♪
- [hissing]
- ♪
- AUDIENCE: MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!
- MAN: Now making his way to the cage,
MVP, Michael "Venom" Page!
- ♪
- SEAN: A funny thing is happening
to Michael Page on his way
to making his MVP character a worldwide phenomenon.
His unique style, his electricity outside the cage
that has led to so many easy wins inside,
he's doing the one thing he set out not to do,
and that's leave fans unsatisfied.
His style, he said, makes good fighters look average,
so here we are, Jimmy, after nine fights and nine wins,
only one of which has gone past the first round,
but the only thing we know about Michael "Venom" Page
is to not dare look away because chances are someday
he's going to do something we have never seen before.
- Jimmy: And the best example, I think, is Ricky Rainey,
a guy who before that fight looked great,
has looked great since that fight,
but against Michael "Venom" Page,
he looked completely unprepared,
and that was a guy who prided himself on his striking,
on his kickboxing,
and Michael "Venom" Page made him look unprepared.
- SEAN: Third straight fight for MVP you can see,
and you watched him from the beginning in Bellator, Jimmy.
The crowd is changing.
At first, they didn't react well to the unique style
and thought he was showing guys up,
and now slowly but surely with a guy with star quality,
fans are reacting.
- JIMMY: He's entertaining to watch, you can't deny that.
- MALE SINGER: ♪ Mess around ♪ ♪ Make a sound ♪
♪ Mess around ♪ ♪ Make a sound ♪
- AUDIENCE: MVP! MVP! MVP!
- SEAN: There is only one Michael "Venom" Page
undefeated in nine fights.
The tale of the tape brought to you by Dave & Buster's,
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- JIMMY: This is what fighters have trouble with,
the height and reach advantage of Michael "Venom" Page.
- SEAN: A huge night in Bellator MMA history,
it begins as always with Michael C. Williams.
- Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and welcome
as tonight Miller Lite presents Bellator MMA
live on Spike from Mohegan Sun Arena.
We begin with three 5-minute rounds
in the welterweight division
brought to you by Dave & Buster's,
"The only place to eat, drink, play and watch sports."
And now first introducing the blue corner,
at 6 foot weighing in at 171 pounds,
his professional record, seven wins, just one loss,
from Hickory, North Carolina, presenting Jeremie
"Hit Em" Holloway!
- [audience cheering]
- MICHAEL W.: And across the cage,
his adversary, fighting out of the red corner,
at 6-foot-3, weighing in 170 pounds even,
undefeated as a professional, he stands with nine victories,
no defeats, fighting out of London, England,
presenting MVP, Michael "Venom" Page"!
- [audience cheering]
- MICHAEL W.: In charge of the action,
your referee, Big John McCarthy.
- SEAN: The first time
John McCarthy has reffed an MVP fight.
- SEAN: Most of them do not last long.
- JOHN: You ready? Are you ready?
- [bell rings]
- SEAN: And a huge right hand by MVP begins it!
Holloway walked right into it.
He tried to challenge him.
He tried to charge him as he promised he would do,
and Michael "Venom" Page was waiting.
How's that for a start?
- JIMMY: And a brutal right hand.
To his credit, Holloway is back on his feet,
but he's eating more shots.
- SEAN: He said he was going to pressure MVP.
Nobody's been able to do it yet.
- JIMMY: He's realizing the danger of getting in range.
He's got to use his footwork.
He's coming in forward. Page can see him coming.
- SEAN: Lead with the left that time with the misdirection.
It's part Anderson Silva and part Bugs Bunny.
- JIMMY: I don't think I ever heard
those two people put together. I'm impressed, Sean.
- SEAN: We've never seen anything like MVP.
I know Jeremie Holloway hasn't.
- JIMMY: This is what Holloway wants: in tight,
in clinch range,
throwing some grappling, some dirty boxing,
stay out of that distance range where Michael "Venom" Page
is just too fast to deal with.
- SEAN: Fight clock brought to you by Miller Lite,
the original light beer, "Cheers. It's Miller time."
It almost was 5 seconds into this fight.
This is what Nah-Shon Burrell did.
He's the only one to get out of the first round with MVP.
- JIMMY: Well, this is pretty much
just what Nah-Shon Burrell did.
He made it close, kept him chest to chest
but couldn't throw any strikes from this distance.
See the trouble Holloway is having doing that as well.
- [audience booing]
- SEAN: It's funny. The first time fans saw MVP,
they were booing him for the style.
That shot came in low and called for a time-out.
There's John McCarthy.
They were booing MVP because they weren't used to the style.
Now they're booing fighters for slowing him down.
- Just make sure that you're good.
Okay?
Stay right there.
Hey. Go. Be sure where you're at.
You got it?
- Yes, sir. - Okay. Come on.
- SEAN: License and registration, please.
- Fight!
- SEAN: Let's see if that slows MVP down at all.
- MAN: This is your game, baby, what you fight for!
- SEAN: See what Holloway wants to do,
but now it's dangerous to get in there.
MVP, tae kwon do background, another big right,
and that rocked Holloway.
- JIMMY: That hurt him.
- SEAN: In foot-lock position.
- JIMMY: Hips are not in the correct
because he can't kick from there.
He can push him with the foot, but he can't kick him.
- SEAN: And that's it.
- JIMMY: He reverse ankle-locked him,
counter ankle-locked him.
- SEAN: He promised us we would see something new, and we did.
- JIMMY: Man, I did not see that coming at all.
- SEAN: Neither did Jeremie Holloway.
- JIMMY: Wow, looked like he was just defending, didn't
even sit all the way back. It must have been a toehold.
- Jeremie, stand still.
- SEAN: And another MVP fight that lasts
about as long as some people's retirements.
- JIMMY: Man, I want to see that again.
- SEAN: The replay brought to you by Blackheart Premium
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that's edgy to the core." That's how this fight started.
- JIMMY: Jeremie Holloway
came out rushing Michael "Venom" Page.
Look at this, bang, in real time.
That's an unbelievably fast right hand.
This is slow motion, folks,
and it looks almost like real-time speed.
And once again, that right hand landing over and over.
We thought this one really hurt Holloway.
This was kind of the beginning of the end
but against the fence.
See if we can get it on camera this time, and it's a toehold.
- SEAN: It was. - JIMMY: Yeah.
- SEAN: It was hard to see from where we were,
but it's exactly what it was.
- JIMMY: It's a toehold and not from the traditional angle,
great stuff again from Michael "Venom" Page.
- SEAN: Hop on, kids.
The bandwagon is getting crowded.
Michael "Venom" Page is 10 and 0.
What's next for him? He may very well just tell Jimmy Smith
when we return.
- SEAN: Michael "Venom" Page shows us
just how deep that golf bag is of different clubs he can use.
He goes for a submission,
a toehold to get that 10th consecutive win.
Let's make it official.
- Ladies and gentlemen, inside the Bellator cage,
the tap comes by way of a toehold.
Official time:
2 minutes, 15 seconds into round number one.
The winner by submission, still undefeated:
MVP, Michael "Venom" Page!
- SEAN: The countdown to the O2 Arena in London
has become for MVP.
He's 10 and 0, and he's with Jimmy Smith.
- I'm here with a man who does not get paid
by the round, Michael "Venom" Page.
Were you expecting him to come at you the way he did?
It seems like you had that right hand ready to go.
- Man, I think everyone is going to try and do that.
They're going to try and rush me.
They don't want me to be able to do what I do in here,
so they're going to try and close me down,
but I'm always ready, man. It's loaded all the time.
- Talk to me about the end of the fight.
We know about your stand-up,
showed your submission game at the end.
It was a counter foot lock. He was going for your leg.
It looks like you got a modified toehold, something new.
- Yeah. This is the kind of [indistinct]
I'm trying to take to people.
I'm in the gym working on my all-around game,
you know, so just so when things like that happen,
I'm ready for it, and I can finish the same way.
- And for the first time, we can say it.
The bout is signed, July 16th in London
against Fernando Gonzalez, The Menifee Maniac,
a very tough customer. What's in store for him?
- The exact same thing and worse.
You know what? I like the fact that Fernando Gonzalez
can stay in a fight.
It just means I get to show you guys even more of my game.
I got so much more, so much more,
and he is going to get it in London.
Make sure you tune in.
- You heard it, Fernando! Get ready! Michael "Venom" Page,
ladies and gentlemen!
- SEAN: Every time out he becomes more
and more impressive. The doubters begin to fade,
and the bandwagon becomes more crowded.
Michael "Venom" Page goes to 10 and 0,