New Orleans — Now a heavyweight, Ryan Spann on Saturday secured his first win in the weight class, submitting Łukasz Brzeski inside of a round at UFC 318.
The move to heavyweight was less Spann’s choice, and more about trusting in his coaches, he revealed following the fight.
“I just show up, I’m the bullet. I just do whatever. I’m going to be ready whatever weight,” stated Spann, giving his team full credit while speaking with media outlets including Cageside Press. “They’re too good for me not to trust them.”
After his team encouraged him to make the switch in weight classes, Spann, a former middleweight, wound up knocked out by Waldo Cortes-Acosta. Asked about what went wrong in that March fight, Spann explained that “honestly I think the heavyweight debut was just me getting on the scale, thinking I didn’t have to weigh in, so the last three weeks of that was atrocious.”
In comparison, at UFC 318, “I wanted to make sure we finished, we executed, big part of the game plan. We wanted to finish and execute. Tonight was the final preparation.”
Might he ever make the drop back down to light heavyweight? It doesn’t seem to be in the cards currently, but neither is it entirely out of the question. “We’ll see.”
Spann, nicknamed “Superman,” was also asked for his thoughts on the current James Gunn big screen adaptation of the classic comic book character. Without giving any spoilers, Spann gave it a thumbs up, noting it stayed close to the source material.
Watch the full UFC 318 post-fight press conference with Ryan Spann below.
