Serghei Spivac has never needed to be the loudest heavyweight in the room to get his point across.
As he prepares to face Vitor Petrino at UFC Sacramento, the usually reserved Spivac is focused less on talking his way into the spotlight and more on showing what a training room full of heavyweights at Freestyle MMA has added to his game.
“I think that’s normal. He is a UFC fighter, and there’s nobody who’s weak here in the UFC,” Spivac told reporters through a translator on Wednesday.
“It’s important for anybody who’s a UFC fighter to be confident in themselves. It’s part of the game.”
Meanwhile, while some heavyweights have no problem talking their way into the spotlight, Spivac has never been one to play that game. Instead, he understands why other fighters lean into trash talk to promote themselves, but he would rather stay quiet and let his fighting do the talking.
“We’re just very different. A lot of us are very different here. They’re doing their work. This is the way that they know to approach their work. They do a lot of loud speaking,” he said.
“I on the other hand am a little more quiet, a little more private of a person, but we’re all professional fighters. We’re all doing the way we know best. Different people do it differently.”
Spivac has had plenty of heavyweight training partners to work with at Freestyle MMA in Las Vegas. With plenty of heavyweights and new training partners around him, Spivac feels ready for the matchup.
“There’s a good amount of competition there. There’s like 8-10 heavies so we’re working all the time together, we’re preparing, these guys had fights recently. So we’ve put together a really good team of big guys that are helping each other out,” said Spivac.
“A lot of it is keyed towards me. My preparation, the guys that I could compete with, the guys that give me some different looks. They specifically bring in new guys as well for my preparation.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Serghei Spivac above. He faces Vitor Petrino at UFC Sacramento on Saturday night.
