UFC heavyweight Ryan Spann is absolutely enjoying his new weight class as he gets set to face Waldo Cortes-Acosta at UFC Vegas 104 on Saturday night.
“I wouldn’t say ‘reinvigorated’ because’s we’ve been still doing work,” Spann told reporters on Wednesday.
“I don’t have to cut weight. I’ve been still consistent because honestly I train close to the weight that ya’ll gonna see Friday. I just spend a lot of that time cutting weight. So I ain’t really get to do all the things that I should have been doing getting ready. Now, we’re having fun, and we’re in the gym.”
Spann (22-10) had a pretty successful run at light heavyweight going 8-5 in the division, but after suffering three consecutive losses which he snapped with a win over Ovince St.Preux at UFC 307, the move to heavyweight was in order.
“We’re more consistent. I can eat better. I can eat more. My body wants to be big,” he said.
The move wasn’t exactly his idea, but he was ok with it.
“Honestly it was coach that wanted to move up. Everything that happened after that was me just going with it. I didn’t really care. I accepted the fact that we were going up. We made it make sense to us,” he said.
Even with the move up the door to 205 remains open.
“If we want to go back we can go back, but right now we’re where we’re at,” he said.
“205, 85, I’m a 70er in a heavyweight body. I’m really a welterweight.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Ryan Spann above. He takes on Waldo Cortes-Acosta at UFC Vegas 104 on Saturday night.
