Michael Page’s Misfits move resets the market after a six-fight UFC decision run

Michael Page has traded a ranked UFC position for a multi-fight agreement with Misfits Boxing, shifting the 39-year-old from MMA’s mixed-rule environment into a market that will judge his striking without takedowns, control or submission threats.

MMA Fighting reported that Page signed with Misfits after the UFC declined to re-sign him following September’s unanimous-decision win over Nursulton Ruziboev. The move came only 37 days after that bout and closed a 5-1 UFC run in which every result reached the judges.

That record makes the transition easy to misread. Page was successful in the UFC, but his recent results did not come from the kind of finishing surge that automatically translates into short boxing totals or knockout positions. His six-fight UFC archive contains 18 completed rounds, 173 significant strikes landed and zero knockdowns.

Page leaves MMA with a clear but narrow statistical profile

Page won five of his six archived UFC bouts, including four straight against Shara Magomedov, Jared Cannonier, Sam Patterson and Ruziboev. All five wins came by decision. His only loss, against Ian Machado Garry in June 2024, also went to a decision. He was never finished during the sample.

The mechanism behind that consistency matters more than the 5-1 record. Page landed 2.28 significant strikes per minute while absorbing 1.51, pairing 58% career accuracy with 62% striking defense. Those figures describe an efficient, low-exposure striker rather than a high-output pressure fighter. He limited the amount of clean offense coming back, but he also did not build his UFC success around overwhelming volume.