Michael Venom Page DOMINATES Shara Magomedov in stunning UFC Saudi Arabia win in front of Cristiano Ronaldo

MICHAEL 'VENOM' PAGE scored the biggest triumph of his UFC vocation with a stunning stoppage of Shara Magomedov.

The long-time instrumentality favourite moved up to middleweight to instrumentality connected the kickboxing phenom successful the co-main lawsuit of UFC Fight Night 250 successful Saudi Arabia.

Page, 37, revealed to SunSport this week that helium was eyeing a immense knockout triumph implicit the caller cult figure.

And the Londoner delivered connected his vow with a ascendant show that saw the judges crook successful 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28 scorecards.

"Look astatine me. I americium the skipper now," Page said successful notation to Magomedov's 'Pirate' moniker. "I americium the skipper now."

Both men looked to usage their feints to get a work connected the different adjacent the region aboriginal doors.

MVP looked to onshore his patented leaping overhand near earlier the two-minute people but missed and concisely recovered himself successful a guillotine.

But landed it a infinitesimal and a fractional aboriginal to gully a large absorption from the pro-Magomedov crowd.

Page closed a tense archetypal by narrowly missing a spinning instrumentality footwear a divided 2nd earlier the horn.

Page's superb scope absorption successful the 2nd allowed him to superb to avoiding limb kicks aboriginal successful the second.

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Magomedov started to go visibly frustrated arsenic the circular wore on, truthful overmuch truthful that helium recovered himself connected the receiving extremity of a stiff one-two.

He astir ate a immense flying genu a fewer seconds aboriginal but managed to get his caput disconnected the centre line.

Confidence soon started to ooze retired of Page, truthful overmuch truthful that helium started sticking his lingua retired arsenic helium circled retired of range.

Magomedov's country urged him to bare the vessel betwixt the last rounds arsenic they were good alert their antheral was down 2 rounds.

But closing the region and landing his ain strikes proved to beryllium nigh-on intolerable owed to Page's unthinkable elusiveness.

Page snapped backmost the caput of the pirate with a immense flying genu connected the changeable of the midway constituent of the round.

A frustrated Magomedov started to locomotion Page down with a infinitesimal and a fractional of the circular near and recovered a location for a close hand.

But Page managed to enactment retired of scope of a knockout blow, though helium threw himself into the occurrence with a rolling thunder footwear seconds earlier the last horn.

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