‘I came here on a business trip’

Logan Storley has just one issue on his intellect – the Bellator welterweight interim championship.

Storley is on a mission to get paid his initial title under a main promotion at Friday’s Bellator 280 in London. But to achieve that, he will have to get previous long-time contender Michael Web site, as properly as Page’s pre-battle antics that occur with every single battle he’s in.

Web page (20-1 MMA, 16-1 BMMA) is notorious for trash chatting and getting a showman in the course of his occupation. Storley (13-1 MMA, 8-1 BMMA) is not way too acquainted dealing with these types of opponents, but regardless, the 29-calendar year-old won’t allow the out-of-cage factors distract him from the endeavor at hand.

“I guess Justin Buckley talked a fairly a minor trash to me, but apart from that, which is about it truly,” Storley told MMA Junkie Radio. “I guess I don’t truly treatment. I really don’t get too wrapped up in it. At the stop of the working day, I arrived here on a business vacation. It is not particular to me. None of this is.

“I don’t disrespect or hate anybody that I’m heading to fight. At the stop of the working day, we’re both equally prize fighters battling for dollars, and I’m likely to do my work on Friday, and I’m heading to go back to the United Sates and be champ and delight in my lifestyle. I get it. You have to offer the struggle a minimal little bit, but it does not do substantially for me personally.”

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Storley is filling in for champion Yaroslav Amosov, who withdrew from the title combat towards Site. Amosov, a indigenous of Ukraine, has opted to remain in his property state and be section of the resistance in opposition to Russia’s war.

Storley is clean off a large win more than Neiman Gracie at Bellator 274, which served as the promotion’s initial 5-round, non-title headliner. The standout wrestler’s lone decline arrived at the palms of Amosov.

Meanwhile, Website page has gained 6 fights in a row considering that suffering his to start with-career decline to Lima in the Bellator grand prix semifinals in May well 2019. He was ready to avenge his knockout loss to Lima in his most modern outing previous October when he edged him out at Bellator 267 in London.