‘I came here on a business trip’

Logan Storley has one particular detail on his thoughts – the Bellator welterweight interim championship.

Storley is on a mission to get paid his initially title underneath a significant marketing at Friday’s Bellator 280 in London. But to accomplish that, he will have to get past extended-time contender Michael Page, as properly as Page’s pre-combat antics that arrive with every battle he’s in.

Page (20-1 MMA, 16-1 BMMA) is notorious for trash chatting and currently being a showman during his profession. Storley (13-1 MMA, 8-1 BMMA) is not as well common dealing with these sorts of opponents, but no matter, the 29-yr-aged won’t allow the out-of-cage aspects distract him from the undertaking at hand.

“I guess Justin Buckley talked a rather a small trash to me, but aside from that, that is about it really,” Storley informed MMA Junkie Radio. “I guess I really don’t seriously care. I never get also wrapped up in it. At the conclusion of the day, I arrived in this article on a company journey. It is not private to me. None of this is.

“I really don’t disrespect or detest any person that I’m likely to combat. At the close of the day, we’re equally prize fighters battling for cash, and I’m likely to do my task on Friday, and I’m likely to go again to the United Sates and be champ and take pleasure in my daily life. I get it. You have to promote the battle a little little bit, but it doesn’t do considerably for me individually.”

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Storley is filling in for champion Yaroslav Amosov, who withdrew from the title fight towards Website page. Amosov, a native of Ukraine, has opted to keep in his home country and be component of the resistance from Russia’s war.

Storley is contemporary off a major get over Neiman Gracie at Bellator 274, which served as the promotion’s very first five-spherical, non-title headliner. The standout wrestler’s lone reduction arrived at the arms of Amosov.

In the meantime, Webpage has gained 6 fights in a row considering that suffering his 1st-vocation loss to Lima in the Bellator grand prix semifinals in May perhaps 2019. He was capable to avenge his knockout decline to Lima in his most modern outing previous October when he edged him out at Bellator 267 in London.