Serghei Spivac

Um, yeah, he's number eight in the media rankings, uh, and number eight also in the meta rank.

Oh, 'cause he beat Sergei Spivak, so he just took his spot.

I know he'll be ranked in my top 10 when, uh, when we update that after, um, UFC 331.

Uh, where'd you go, Jed? Where'd you go for Mr.

Yeah, wow.

I went the other side of that ball.

I went Sergei Spivak for Blaydes.

Hmm.

I don't think his grappling is that good.

And look, it held up against Sergei Spivak and it made me pump the brakes just a little bit and be like, okay, wait a second.

His grappling isn't the worst heavyweight boxer grappling I've ever seen.

like isn't curtis blades a different level than that you know like curtis blades i know he had the one bad grappling fight when it came to gelton almeida i kind of think gelton almeida when he chooses to grapple does really well but like outside of that like as long as curtis blades remembers he has a double leg he's fine you know what i mean like it's not like there are tons of people out there who have like stuffed his takedowns and you know he's coming off that loss of josh hokit right and You can say what you want about that fight, but at the end of the day, Josh Hogan has proven himself in if he's going to have trouble with wrestling, obviously against a guy who is a high-level college wrestler like Hogan and a phenomenal athlete.

Onte thought he won the fight, then they resumed it, then he got knocked out.

Sergei Spivak.

Hmm.

Sergei Spivak can wrestle.

And so Sergei Spivak shoots a few takedowns, and all of a sudden he gets them, and he sets up top control, and he ends up, you know, having some decent pockets of success.

But Spivak's by no means a good wrestler.

It's like I, I kind of struggle to see where he's fought any wrestlers.

Sure.

Pinto, Sergei Spivak, Andruska, Rob Font.

Whoa, another veteran test.

Damn, okay.

And the UFC could have put anybody, literally anybody, at 155 against this guy, and Paris would have forked up for it.

I mean, they filled this arena one time with Gon versus Sergey Spivak.

OK, but you put Dan Hooker in there and now it's a party.

Now it's a good time.

He's a very bland, just traditional heavyweight fighter.

You know, we saw a couple weeks ago with Sergei Spivak.

It's kind of like that same type of fighting where it's just like...

I feel like we shouldn't be going to the decision if we're a heavyweight.

...

he feels like the kind of guy who could step in right now, stuff three takedowns from Sergey Spivak and, like, really make that dude work.

And I don't know if he'd beat Sergey Spivak, but, like, I'd have...

I'd go back and watch film and, like, ask myself, like, is it...

It wouldn't be immediately like, "No, Sergey Spivak's got this." So, uh-

Yeah

... like I, I think that's, like, uh, at least the temporary upside for Charlie Cleveland.

a good time and also like you

know with some obvious exceptions yeah you know it's got uh you know sergey spivak or whatever

yeah

uh but he he lost but also like again i've said it so many times don't book heavyweights in prominent spots this year