TUF 24 represents last best chance at UFC for Damacio Page, Adam Antolin

Damacio Page will watch himself compete Wednesday night on The Ultimate Fighter 24 from a local Albuquerque sports bar. Just 24 hours earlier, Page was laboring hard and sweating profusely at his other gig as a subcontractor.

The MMA veteran is currently on a job remodeling and repainting a home. Without it, Page wouldn’t be able to afford his true passion of fighting.

“Gotta make money, man,” Page told MMA Fighting on Tuesday. “To support a training camp. … It’s hot right now. It’s probably like 89 degrees today. But it’s been raining, so it’s humid as hell. Usually in the summer here it’s like 95, 96.”

That’s the reality of things for Page and Adam Antolin, his opponent on Wednesday’s episode in the first round of the TUF 24 flyweight tournament. The winner of the 16-man tourney, which pits champions from other organizations against one other, gets a title shot against UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson at the TUF 24 Finale on Dec. 3 in Las Vegas.

Page, the Legacy FC 125-pound champion, is 33 years old and has been competing in MMA since 2005. Antolin, the Tachi Palace Fights beltholder, is 34 with eight years of pro fighting under his belt.

For both of them, this run on The Ultimate Fighter could be their last, best chance at making the UFC and making a run.

Antolin (11-3) tried out for a 135-pound slot on TUF four years ago, but didn’t make it because they told him he …

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