After a flurry of fists brought a victorious ending for Ryan Spann at UFC Vegas 21, tears flowed. That was the opposite emotion he initially expected.
So angered was Spann by a flood of social media haters after his previous performance, a knockout loss to Johnny Walker this past September, that he thought his post-fight celebration would instead be an explosion. His Fortis MMA teammate Uriah Hall had to give him “a little pep talk” to calm him down.
“I’m not going to tell you exactly what he said,” Spann said with a chuckle at the event’s post-fight press conference on Saturday at UFC APEX in Las Vegas.