By Chamatkar Sandhu

Following today's breaking news on FloCombat that Canadian welterweight Rory MacDonald had signed with Bellator MMA, fans and media members alike started to speculate and salivate over some of the potential fights available to him at the Viacom owned promotion.

Right at the top of the list is a fight with Bellator's breakthrough star of 2016: London, England's own Michael 'Venom' Page.

FloComat reached out to MVP to get his reaction to what is no doubt a game changing moment in the sport.

"I think that's amazing news for Bellator," Page said. "Scott Coker is an amazing captain of this ship with signings like that. I think there's going to be more to come as well. It's showing that Bellator is moving in the correct direction. By far they have the best production of any MMA show in the world. I enjoy being here and this just gives me one extra person to punch in the face so I'm definitely happy about that."

Page is all over the idea of fighting MacDonald, especially since a fight of that magnitude would almost certainly receive main event status. 

"I'd love that," said Page. "That's a big fight."

Earlier this year Page was in talks to spend some time at the Tristar gym in Montreal helping MacDonald prepare for his fight against Stephen Thompson. But the proposed training sessions never materialized. 


"We had limited time because I was supposed to be getting ready myself," Page said. "We could only stay for a limited time and unless they were going to pay for me to stay it wasn't financially beneficial for me to stay there that long. They went for Raymond Daniels, who is an amazing fighter and comes from my style but obviously it didn't pay off in the end as everyone saw. I think the potential of him coming over to Bellator; he could potentially be an opponent."

Page believes there is a big difference in bringing in somebody that has a point fighting background versus someone who has adapted that style into MMA.

"If they had me come to their gym I could have shown them," Page said. "Unless you can find somebody that can replicate that style and also knows how to wrestle, grapple it's going to be very difficult. You need people to replicate what will actually happen in the cage. You need a point fighter in MMA and there's very few of us so unless you're learning from myself or Thompson you're not necessarily going to get the full experience."

Before MacDonald signed with Bellator, Page speculated on the idea of the Canadian coming across to Bellator and questioned how the former UFC title challenger would fare if the two were to fight.

"I don't think he'd want to after his experience with Thompson," Page said. "I don't think he'd want another Thompson style fighter for his first fight in Bellator. You saw his struggles in that fight and his frustrations. He's a big fighter with a big name and I'm happy to fight anybody so yeah it would be a good fight."