European Heavyweights Marcin Tybura and Serghei Spivac will run it back in the main event of UFC Vegas 95.
The two first met back in 2020, when Tybura took home the unanimous decision win. Four years later, Tybura and Spivac find themselves sitting 8th and 9th in the Heavyweight rankings, respectively.
Since their first bout, Tybura has been extremely active, having fought 9 times and claiming seven wins. The Spivac win started the Polishman’s best run with the promotion.
After the Spivac bout, ‘Tybur’ returned to the UFC Octagon 5 months later and picked up another unanimous decision win when he faced Maxim Grishin at UFC 251.
In what proved to be an extremely active year for Tybura, he competed twice more before 2020 was out. Three months after the Grishin bout, he claimed his third consecutive unanimous decision win, this time against Ben Rothwell, before rounding the year out with a second round stoppage win against Greg Hardy.
Tybura’s fine form continued into 2021 when he stopped Walt Harris in the very first round of their contest, in his first outing of the year. On a 5 fight win streak, ‘Tybur’ then squared off against the formidable Alexander Volkov at UFC 267. Volkov derailed Tybura’s momentum and handed him his first loss since 2019.
After two cancelled bouts against Jairzinho Rozenstruik, it would be 10 months before Tybura could look to bounce back to winning ways. When the opportunity came around, with a bout against Alexandr Romanov at UFC 278, he took it and earned a hard fought majority decision. A unanimous decision win against Blagoy Imanov then set up a huge bout against Tom Aspinall.
The bout marked Aspinall’s first contest back since his devastating knee injury and the Brit returned with a point to prove and dispatched of Tybura in 73 seconds.
‘Tybur’ has already competed once this year and beat Tai Tuivasa with a first round submission.
For Spivac, the loss against Tybura ignited a fire under him and he went on a three fight winning streak.
After claiming a majority decision against Carlos Felipe at in his first fight back, ‘Polar Bear’ then faced Jared Vanderaa at the beginning of 2021. Spivac stopped Vanderaa in the second round of their contest, looking impressive throughout.
Four months later, he faced the vastly more experienced Aleksei Oleinik and earned a well fought unanimous decision win.
In his final bout of the year, Spivac faced Tom Aspinall. Aspinall’s speed, once again, proved to be too much and the Brit stopped Spivac in the first round.
Once again, a loss seemed to light a spark for Spivac who then built another 3 fight win streak. He ran through Greg Hardy in the first round of their contest at UFC 272, before stopping Agusto Sakai in the second round of their Fight Night bout.
His third win of the run came against the hard hitting Derek Lewis. Spivac negated the danger of Lewis’ power by getting the fight to the floor and locking up an arm triangle choke in first round.
His last outing was against Cyril Gane, in front of a rowdy French crowd. Gane handed Spivac the fourth professional loss of his career. It will be 10 months out of action by the time ‘Polar Bear’ reruns at the UFC APEX.
