Bo Nickal on RDR - "When I tried to take him down I took him down. It's not like he could stop me from doing that"

[AndrewGolota48]

18 minutes in.



Do you believe this statement? To me it seemed like he tried in round two but was unsuccessful.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

I mean, yea I guess

Until those knees started to plunge your chest cavity in

 

[Kal-El]

There's more to mma then taking someone down.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

I mean, yea I guess

Until those knees started to plunge your chest cavity in

Wish RDR would have hit him with the finisher he had planned, but Bo took the knee in subservience.

 

[Ube]

So why couldn’t you take him down more dumb ass

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Wish RDR would have hit him with the finisher he had planned, but Bo took the knee in subservience.

Geez

 

[Arm Barbarian]

He did, but also did fuck all with it. RDR scrambled right out and improved position on him fairly easily.

Takedowns and wrestling are a great aspect of the game, but only a very small portion of overall fighting in MMA.

Bo got handled everywhere in this fight. It looked like a pro vs. an amateur.

 

[188912345]

So why didn't he try to take him down when he had a body lock on RDR in round 2, which he was losing? Just didn't feel like it?

 

[Bork Neslar]

He didn't learn anything. Sad : (

 

[BluntForceTrama]

lets stop interviewing this dope

 

[burningspear]

He was afraid to because of the sub threat, similar to Craig he wanted a sparring match.
Does anyone else think his best way fwd is the old school blast double & gnp, coleman/tito style?

 

[Cheese_&_mma_lover]

He's a quitter

And his uchimata to anklepick was low level technique

 

[AndrewGolota48]

He was afraid to because of the sub threat, similar to Craig he wanted a sparring match.
Does anyone else think his best way fwd is the old school blast double & gnp, coleman/tito style?

Yes he'd be better off than trying to be a sprawl and brawler with terrible striking like he has been doing. Getting subs from the bottom is a lot harder these days in MMA so his opponents would be hard pressed....but the problem is on the flip side that it's also a lot harder to hold people down in modern MMA. He'd really have to work on top control, not getting swept or letting his opponents get up too easily, and learning how to actually finish down there like Islam, but that's all easier said than done.....

 

[shunyata]

He got outgrappled all through round 1 after that td.

 

[Dr. Rose]

So why couldn’t you take him down more dumb ass

Because Bo forgot to mention that rdr adjusted and adapted and it stopped working.

 

[Shaolin Alan]

Yes Bo. He went down when you went down on him

 

[CrimsonFan]

He did, but also did fuck all with it. RDR scrambled right out and improved position on him fairly easily.

Takedowns and wrestling are a great aspect of the game, but only a very small portion of overall fighting in MMA.

Bo got handled everywhere in this fight. It looked like a pro vs. an amateur.

I mean he lost position because he went for a choke.

I said it in another thread and people disagreed with me, but i think Bo has been wasting alot of time training his striking when he should just be leaning into grappling like 90%.

 

[GrantB13]

I'm gonna have to agree with Du Plessis' take: "This isn't wrestling". That's truly how Bo is treating his MMA career so far. Everything is about wrestling.

 

[Poatan Power]

Best not to take post-fight ideas that seriously. Fighters aren't analysts.

 

[tritestill]

He's leaning into his gimmick hard or he's really dense.