Stephen Thompson agrees with Michael ‘Venom’ Web page on ‘boring struggle’ feedback
Throughout a latest interview with InsideFighting, Thompson defined why he agrees with Web page’s stance on a potential UFC conflict.
“A constructive and a constructive doesn’t at all times make a constructive,” Thompson stated. “We’ve got such comparable types that it might presumably be a really boring struggle for everyone. We’re each counterstrikers, so it might be simply me and him bouncing within the center ready on someone to do one thing…
“It doesn’t at all times make it an thrilling struggle…I wish to maintain combating wrestlers and getting higher at that as nicely. It will get a lot hype about it and when it’s not what everybody expects, the struggle’s not at all times entertaining.”
Thompson vs. Web page might probably be provided by the UFC matchmakers. Each welterweights wish to knock on the door of title competition at this later stage of their careers.
Web page signed with the UFC earlier this 12 months after an extended stint in Bellator. Throughout his time within the Bellator cage, he earned a collection of untamed knockouts, together with towards Cyborg Santos and Giovanni Melillo.
There’s lots of mutual respect between Thompson and Web page, and whereas a vocal group of followers needs to see the placing battle occur, each side appear disinterested within the matchup.