Light heavyweight Ryan Spann took questions from the press at the official UFC Vegas 70 media day ahead of facing Nikita …
hello hi welcome back how are you feeling um I feel good you know I mean really I’m just ready to go home at this point but I feel good home like back to the hotel or home home Airbnb yeah okay if you had an Airbnb is that a perk of being a main event no that’s me taking care of myself taking care of my body and giving me everything I need to put myself in the best position possible to get the job done so what does the Airbnb do for you is it because you can cook your own food you have your own space so I got my nutritionist here right now um I have my boxing coach Brian Hall from Memphis my strength and condition in coach Geisha Mike skacasia from uh extreme Studio performance in Dallas uh my brother is there my wife is there uh Dr Mann from reform Sports Rehab is going to be here soon um I’m just taking care of myself man I just you do championships you get Champion results so I’m trying to do championship and this is the first fight of the Year for you and it’s a main event where do you go from here when this what’s the next goal for this year the next go the next goal is simple yeah I want something I want something and I’m coming for it gonna wait to say it after the fight or you can tell us now I know what it is but we’ve got to hear you say it okay um what were your thoughts when you got the name for your opponent uh the thoughts that I always have I suppose and which I don’t care I mean it’s just the name that came up uh coach felt pretty good about it um it really don’t matter we almost this fight almost didn’t happen but yeah I still feel good about why didn’t why did the fight almost not happen well we was gonna we was on call for the uh the situation with the belt so so are you happy that it didn’t happen I mean are you what are your thoughts on the way it it did end up playing out for you why would I be happy about not getting the title for it you get a chance to show off I don’t know huh no uh I I don’t I don’t I don’t do this to show off I don’t do this to fight for no reason I want what I want so I can get out when I can get out you know I want to get in and out and the longer it takes me to get there the longer I got to stay what kind of Fight You fight are you I haven’t thought about it to be honest I mean I really don’t care I just me it’s going to be a lot of new YouTube comments Ryan I don’t care spend y’all hear this a lot but I mean really it don’t matter to me um I’m just gonna be me have fun like I always do everything else lines up what are your keys to Victory have fun thank you let me show you this is this is how you do it by the way that’s my man like a fine wine so do you envision with the the win here do you at least swap positions and we’re talking top five or do you think with the definitive win here that should get you back into that title contention not again um preferably preferably like I said the longer it takes me to get to where I’m trying to go so the sooner they can give to me that the sooner I can take over you know what I’m saying and my plan is to get the belt then I’ll leave it for Kennedy when when Kennedy is ready I’ll either go up or I’ll be done you guys have always been such great teammates there at that place it’s that’s refreshing to you my brother is that something that you guys talk about in advance like you know just like when you’re when you’re sweating in the gym you know you guys dream Daydream is this the sort of thing we’ve been in the Mets I have a key to the gym now yeah congrats so we’ve been in the gym just by ourselves having these conversations like we we got a plan we we know what we’re gonna do coach got a a vision and he got a path mapped out for us and we’re going to take over you know in your last looking at your last two win you know against kudalaba was the your patented Guillotine choke but then your last one was off strikes when you see creel level across the cage where do you see the best I think it’s pronounced I think yeah I go back and forth but I pronounce everything wrong yeah I try to get as right as possible I mean do you envision that with his style that the Striking is going to be where you’re going to Excel or do you think that he gets I don’t know his style brother I don’t know what he’s gonna do I don’t care what he’s gonna try to do I just know if I have fun and I’ll be calm I’ll see everything so even if you go and you guys immediately stand in the middle of the cage and you’re taking some shots that’s still fun for you isn’t it you’re taking some strikes just to wake you up and get you get you excited to hit back with somebody is that from part of the fun or is it just you want to go in there and have a complete dominant show and that’s what makes it fun how how long have we been I’ve been here doing this quite a while quite a while is anything about me that you’ve ever seen would make you think that I enjoy that well I know you’d like to hurt people so you maybe maybe just because I like to hurt people don’t mean I like to get hurt like that’s different no good like I said I want to get in and get out brother I want to get out with all my faculties intact that’s awesome I see the uh the Rubik’s Cube up there you’re still working on your Rubik’s game uh yeah I’m trying you know I’m saying I got a little over a little overzealous a little bit I got like a five by five we have to put that bad boy in the closet we can we’re gonna we ain’t ready for that I’ll go to four by four or something but yeah I’m getting better I’m a lot faster I’m gonna learn some more uh algorithms to see if I can speed it up I want to get it down to seconds like I’m still at like maybe two minutes depending on how I feel that day can you do it one-handed like you see something I ain’t that cool no I’ve been seeing people do this and like they’ll turn it with their bottom hand and yeah no I gotta I gotta figure all that out I ain’t got that yet that’s awesome best of luck on Saturday thank you I appreciate it yeah Ryan um when you said that you were on call for uh what’s your name brother I’ve never seen you before oh yeah I can’t it’s like um when you said that you were on call for the light heavyweight title fight did that mean that uh if Jamal didn’t accept you were next up oh no they called me before all that they called me before it announced that he vacated yeah so uh I was gonna fight I wanna say yawn at first and then from there they was gonna uh I I was gonna fight for the number one guaranteed and then I’ll fight the winner for a at the time it was an interim belt so Margaret Med and Glover was going to fight for the interim and then I was gonna fight for number one because they already knew that you know homie was gonna be out for a while and this this was after you knocked out Dominic Reyes yeah so you said you’re gonna yeah it was like two weeks before the fight yeah so you’re gonna turn right to turn right back around and fight yeah um and then I guess finally for me you know you said that you know if Kennedy makes his way up the rankings when when he he makes his way up the rankings uh you go up to heavyweight I don’t know if people have not seen you in person you are a huge human being so I mean is it I mean would you want to go to heavyweight you know I’m thinking about it I really I really want to go back to 85 I got some work that that we didn’t that we didn’t finish there you know I was kind of unservous ceremoniously I don’t that word up uh you know got put in 205 to come here so I don’t know he hates it but you know how I either go up or down was he how and how in the hell is that physically possible for you to make middle eight I’ve done it I mean it is I mean you asked how it’s possible I’ve done it I didn’t say it was fun but I’ve done it I mean God damn you are huge you’re you’re big now you sound like him he said he’ll quit if I want to go to 85. I quit too does the beard help the chin you’re going to keep growing out the beard I like it’s nice and uh I don’t know a lot bigger than last time we saw it I just don’t have time to save it if anything else cut it the night before we’ll see for fight night I’ll talk I’ll talk to my wife and daughter and see if they want me to keep it it’s ultimately her that’s pretty much how it goes yeah but uh yeah whatever it don’t ever it’s not like a strategic advantage or anything like that all right we got one more yeah I got one more last time I talked to you I asked you what’s the song you listened to and nobody’s around you said I listen to what my kids listen to we talked about Encanto you know they don’t we don’t talk about Bruno so what do you got what do you got on the playlist right now this um my king Superman playlist is what I’m using right now uh uh weird on here I don’t think I got anything here thinking some player so I Memphis Memphis nah nah this one’s pretty good um I got half on the sack by Three Six Mafia on my workout playlist so I mean maybe that’s weird no triple six the thing is they’re making a comeback all these Tick Tock kids are just finding out about triple six oh no way oh man I hope they do though that’s for sure but yeah that’s the weirdest thing I got right now I have on the sack that’s what yeah this weird all right thank y’all [Music]