‘I came here on a business trip’

Logan Storley has a person detail on his intellect – the Bellator welterweight interim championship.

Storley is on a mission to earn his initial title beneath a main marketing at Friday’s Bellator 280 in London. But to accomplish that, he will have to get earlier very long-time contender Michael Website page, as very well as Page’s pre-battle antics that occur with each individual combat he’s in.

Website page (20-1 MMA, 16-1 BMMA) is notorious for trash conversing and becoming a showman all over his job. Storley (13-1 MMA, 8-1 BMMA) is not much too familiar working with these sorts of opponents, but irrespective, the 29-yr-aged won’t permit the out-of-cage elements distract him from the activity at hand.

“I guess Justin Buckley talked a fairly a very little trash to me, but in addition to that, that is about it seriously,” Storley informed MMA Junkie Radio. “I guess I really don’t actually care. I never get as well wrapped up in it. At the conclude of the day, I arrived listed here on a business enterprise vacation. It is not private to me. None of this is.

“I do not disrespect or hate any one that I’m likely to fight. At the close of the working day, we’re both equally prize fighters preventing for money, and I’m heading to do my job on Friday, and I’m likely to go again to the United Sates and be champ and love my life. I get it. You have to market the struggle a very little little bit, but it doesn’t do substantially for me individually.”

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Storley is filling in for champion Yaroslav Amosov, who withdrew from the title fight from Site. Amosov, a native of Ukraine, has opted to stay in his household place and be section of the resistance from Russia’s war.

Storley is new off a large gain above Neiman Gracie at Bellator 274, which served as the promotion’s 1st five-spherical, non-title headliner. The standout wrestler’s lone loss came at the fingers of Amosov.

Meanwhile, Website page has won six fights in a row because struggling his first-vocation decline to Lima in the Bellator grand prix semifinals in Could 2019. He was ready to avenge his knockout loss to Lima in his most the latest outing last October when he edged him out at Bellator 267 in London.