The UFC plainly has high expect Bo Nickal.
The Penn State experience has actually parlayed his success on the battling mats into the cage, winning each of his 5 battles to date by first-round surface– 2 of those beginning a main UFC card, and another 2 as part of the Dana White's Contender Series.
On Saturday night, Nickal will continue his combined martial arts apprenticeship versus Cody Brundage in a battle that will open the historical UFC 300 primary card– okay for a fighter with a little over 3 minutes and 30 seconds of in-cage experience with the organisation.
“I didn't anticipate it,” Nickal stated of his positioning on the card, which sees him raised above a number of previous UFC champs consisting of Deiveson Figueirdo, Cody Garbrandt, Jessica Andrade, Holly Holm, Aljamain Sterling and Jiri Prochazka.
“I believe that it's a huge honour for me to be where I'm at on the card, and simply to be on this card in basic due to the fact that there's a lot of remarkable fighters therefore numerous guys that have a lots of experience and who are simply doing huge things in the sport,” he included. “I seem like it states a lot about me, about the UFC and our strategies, and I believe they line up. I'm simply grateful to be where I'm at, and grateful to have this platform to go do my thing.”
While he is still young in his expert battle sports profession, Nickal is of the viewpoint that his body of work in the coming years will describe precisely why he has actually been thrust into this area.
“I seem like at the end of the day, the UFC made a service choice and it made good sense for me to be on the primary card,” he stated. “That being stated, as far as the viewpoints of others, they're not incredibly appropriate to me. I seem like those are going to ups and downs. I'm positive in a year or more once I've developed myself more and constructed my track record in this sport more, that individuals will believe it's a no-brainer and reflect on it and it will make a lot more sense.”
