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Rampage was a brawler in Pride. Oyama trained him in MT & BJJ and before that he was with Tito, Ricco and Mayhem at Punishment. He didn't have a good striking camp before he teamed up with Ibarra.
That slugging, with his chin and wrestling, worked against Chuck. In their rematch, he was a technical counter boxer. He also KO'd Wanderlei with that style, but was at a disadvantage earlier in his career against MT strikers. If you remember, Bustamante and Arona were doing well against him on the feet, he used his wrestling more back then. Beat Igor on the ground.
You're right. I remember pretty clear his first fight against Liddell, he was clearly pursuing the GG, but also landed a lot on the feet against Chuck. Did so too against Wanderlei. Only their third fight he did not go for TD's by that time he knew Silva was not the same fighter any more. He said it himself before the fight.
I'm not sure he was at a disadvantage against Silva though in the first two fights though. Lets break it down. Page was bigger and stronger, had the better wrestling, the one punch KO power I'd give to him too. Silva was the better brawler, still is a brawler to this day, thing is his chin allowed him to stay quite effective with it back in the day. I think he won against Jackson because he wore him down in both fights. Dunno if Page broke physically (stamina/cardio) or mentally but this is how it looked to me. Cause one thing is Wanderlei has always showed up in top physical and mental shape for his fight