UFC bantamweight Damacio Page. (Photo courtesy of mmajunkie)

Damacio Page quit boozing, buckled down on training and now hopes to improve his 0-0 record.

On April 14, Page (Twitter: @damaciopage) will look to put an end to his two-fight losing skid when he meets Brad Pickett at UFC on Fuel 2 at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.  “The Angel of Death” lost his UFC debut to Brian Bowles at UFC Live: “Sanchez vs. Kampmann” via rear-naked choke in March 2011.  Prior to that, Page was in the WEC and lost his final bout in the blue canvased cage to Demetrious Johnson in November 2010.

Page said those two matches were a way of him venting because he had some pent up aggression, but he feels he could’ve beat either combatant on any given night.  His emotions got the better of him and Page credits both fighters for capitalizing on his mistakes.

Suffering back-to-back defeats is not an ideal position for a mixed martial artist, but Page is heading into Sweden with a clean slate.

“I trained hard in this camp, I feel like everything has been great, so I don’t even care about those two losses,” Page told Michael Steczkowski and Hector Castro on Darce Side Radio on the MMA DieHards Radio Network.  “My career starts again on April 14^th.  It’s going to be the starting point of my career and I’m excited.  I’m 0-0 right now, that’s the way I look at it.”

Along with quality training and a strong mentality, Page is also cautious of what he is ingesting.

Professional athletes from every sport combine supplements and a strict diet with their rigorous training regimen.  Page has recently subtracted something from his diet that he said is the big thing that helped the most.

“I stopped drinking, I haven’t had a drink for a year and a half,” Page confessed.  “That’s a big benefit to training.  You got to think of your body as a high-performance machine.  You don’t have a Ferrari and put recycled oil in it, or 89 pump gas.  You want to put the best in it, you want to maintenance it right, you want to get the oil changed, you want to take it to the right mechanic and get it so it performs right every single time.  You can just turn the key and it starts.

“Same thing with your body, you don’t want to have this high-performance machine and fill it with alcohol and bad food, and then come back and try to rev that engine.  You can’t because you have all that bad stuff in you.”

Page trains at Jackson’s MMA under the direction of Greg Jackson, and alongside a group of elite training partners.  Page refers to the teammates that readied him for Pickett as his “lightweight squad,” which consists of Clay Guida, Diego Brandao, John Dodson and Nick Urso.

Though, they are sufficient training partners, Page took a trip north of the border for a valuable getaway.

“The whole camp has just been great,” Page said.  “I feel comfortable and confident.  I went to Montreal for three weeks to get a change of things and see how it is.  See different faces, different styles of training and fighting.  It was good; I was able to expand my game.”

Page’s losing streak may have him down, but not out.

The UFC bantamweight hovered around the top on the weight class in the WEC.  He may not be in the top five of the UFC bantamweight division, but Page still believes he is not far from the title scene.  Page feels the best path to the belt is a trifecta of perfection.

“I feel like I’m at the top of the division still,” Page said.  “Even though they have me ranked at wherever, they keep throwing me top 10 fighters.  They must have something planned for me to keep throwing me top 10 fighters.  The last three years I haven’t fought anybody besides title contenders or title holders.  I think I am three wins away; I have to put together three good wins, not just a horrible win.  What I got to do is put them together and be impressive about it.”

Page enters this bout against Pickett with the mindset of a 0-0 record; therefore it should be expected he fights like he has nothing to lose and everything to gain.