{"id":40018,"date":"2026-08-20T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/UFCs-Michael-Page-is-taking-his-unorthodox-style-to-a-new-combat-sport-202448"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:50:23","slug":"ufcs-michael-page-is-taking-his-unorthodox-style-to-a-new-combat-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ufcs-michael-page-is-taking-his-unorthodox-style-to-a-new-combat-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC’s Michael Page is taking his unorthodox style to a new combat sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/div>\n

Michael
\nPage<\/a> and Alexander
\nShlemenko<\/a> will share the mat in their Real American Freestyle
\ndebuts.<\/p>\n

The promotion recently announced that the two former Bellator<\/a>
\nfighters will meet at RAF 14 on Oct. 3 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Michael Page faces Alexander Shlemenko in his Real American
\nFreestyle debut at RAF 14<\/h2>\n

Page is 4-1 in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> since joining the promotion in
\n2024, with his lone loss coming via decision against Ian Garry<\/a>.
\nThe British fighter previously spent much of his career with
\nBellator
\nMMA<\/a>, where he scored a series of highlight-reel knockouts and
\nchallenged for interim welterweight gold.<\/p>\n

\u201cVenom\u201d is riding a three-fight win streak and is booked to compete
\nat
\nUFC Paris<\/a> on Sept. 5 against Nursulton
\nRuziboev<\/a>. Page has yet to find a finish inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Shlemenko brings extensive combat sports experience into
\nhis RAF debut. The 42-year-old has competed 87 times
\nprofessionally, earning 35 knockout victories and 13 submissions in
\nmixed martial arts. During his Bellator run, he captured the
\nmiddleweight championship in 2013 and successfully defended it
\nthree times.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked UFC lightweight contender Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> takes on Dillon
\nDanis<\/a> in the RAF 14 main event.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

VEGAS ARE YOU READY? \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n

Alexander
\nShlemenko<\/a> takes on Michael
\nPage<\/a> OCT 3 in Las Vegas at #RAF14<\/a><\/p>\n

Tickets in bio. Watch on @foxnation<\/a>
\npic.twitter.com\/XFjBW7kkgw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Real American Freestyle (@RAFWrestlingUSA)
\nAugust 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/center> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Page and Alexander Shlemenko will share the mat in their Real American Freestyle debuts. The promotion recently announced that the two former Bellator fighters will meet at RAF 14 on Oct. 3 in Las Vegas. Advertisement Michael Page faces Alexander Shlemenko in his Real American Freestyle debut at RAF 14 Page is 4-1 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}