Spivak: "Everyone I've lost to has made me a better person."

Ranked Moldovan heavyweight Serghei Spivak said he feels grateful to his opponents who inflicted defeats on him.

"They give me an opponent - I perform. I have no grudge against Tybura. Marcin made me better. Cyril Gan made me better, Tom Aspinall made me better. Everyone I've lost to has made me better. My losses are my big wins. I take some positives out of them," MMA Junkie quoted Spivak as saying.

Last weekend in the main event of UFC on ESPN 61 in Las Vegas, USA, Spivak got back on the winning track by defeating Marcin Tybura by first-round submission.