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The past weekend proved to be cruel for the rising UFC middleweight prospect Bo Nickal. The fighter had claimed big ahead of his fight against Reinier de Ridder, and given the accolades he holds, a push towards the championship picture looked imminent. However, in an anticlimax, Nickal suffered a defeat that too in a way that erased all the points he had earned till now. Bo went down in Round 2 after eating a brutal knee strike, enduring the first loss in his MMA career.
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Bo Nickal Suffers First MMA Loss
A fight against the former One two-division Champion was always going to be daunting for Bo Nickal. But for someone who had stated that he would enter as a favourite even if he came across Khamzat Chimaev, he failed to walk the talk. Thereby, facing flak for the same.
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Former Lightweight Fighter Wants UFC CEO Dana White to Take Call on Bo Nickal
Former Lightweight fighter Josh Thomson has paid heed to the fight and wants the premier MMA promotion to take a harsh step of releasing Nickal.
“The way he lost… the UFC, I’m really telling him, like, you know what? You need to spend probably a good eight months, and you need to go you need to tighten up everything,” Thomson said on the Weighing In Podcast.
“We’re gonna give you some time…
“We’re gonna almost do like what we did with Mason Jones or what we did with Youssef Zalal, and we’re gonna send you off a little bit. We’ll give you eight months or whatever.”
Thomson wants UFC to treat Bo Nickal the same way it treated Mason Jones and Youssef Zalal when they exchanged wins and losses in their first UFC runs.
“He needs work,” Thomson said of Nickal’s performance against de Ridder.
“It was very telling how much work he needs.”
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