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Michael Page predicts a late round knockout after a long war with David Rickles at Bellator 200.

Michael Page predicts a war with David Rickles at Bellator 200, but is confident that he’ll get the KO, once he’s done entertaining us.

“My style is a horrible style to deal with,” the man known as ‘Venom’ told FanSided. “The movement, the timing, the striking, the precision. I’m a stand-up artist, and we all get to start on our feet — all the more better for me. My gameplan is just to be a better MVP on the day. At the very end of the fight, the very very end of the fight, that way you get more entertainment, and then I’m gonna knock him out.”

He says that Rickles has been in a “war” with lots of other fighters, so he’s used to being hit, but that won’t stop him from getting the finish anyways.

“He gets hit and gets back up again,” he said. “But eventually he’s going to get hit enough that he won’t get back up again.”

An injury (and subsequent fight withdrawal) has kept Page from the cage for nearly two years, but now he’s just days away from making his return to MMA and he wants everyone to know he’s ready for what’s at hand.

“I wouldn’t have accepted the fight if I didn’t feel 100 percent,” Page said. “I feel amazing. We’ve made a few changes so I just can’t wait to go in there.”

The pair will meet at Bellator 200, a milestone event for the MMA promotion, but Page isn’t letting that moment overshadow his own personal milestone.

“For me, this is my comeback fight for being out for a long while.,” Page said. “So I’m just more excited about me getting in there and performing. I love being in front of people and I have missed that for a while so that’s mainly what it is for me. It’s just an added bonus that it gets to be on such a historic card. It just adds some flavor to how big this will be.”

For a while there, Page didn’t know when he’d return and he explained that the waiting was one of the hardest parts of being inactive.

“It’s more frustrating than anything,” he said. “It makes it harder to continue and train hard without an end goal in mind. When you don’t know when you are actually going back into the cage it can be extremely frustrating. But either way, we are here now.”

Page and Rickles face off on the main card portion of Bellator 200 live from the SSE Arena in London, England on May 25, 2018. The card will air on tape delay at 9 pm on the Paramount network.