News Bo Nickal was offered to step in to face Robert Whittaker in the main event; including a nice bump in pay. He explains why he couldn't take the fight
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The George Foreman Grill was originally going to be the Hulk Hogan Grill, but Hulk missed the call while picking his kids up from school.
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That would be a MAAAASIVE jump for ol Bo.
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Desperate matchmaking. Thats a good fight if BO has another 3 fights under his belt and a good training camp. No chance otherwise.
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Bro did you not read lol?
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Bo doesn’t have a big name, he’s simply being pushed by the UFC because they see potential in him, but right now he’s a nobody. Same way Sean O’Malley’s popularity was greatly exaggerated and lo and behold turns out the Aljo-O’Malley fight did shit numbers. Bo is even worse cause at least O’Malley had a following on twitch.
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If this leads to Bo/Rodolfo instead, then it will have been a VERY GOOD THING that he didn't take that fight.When UFC was scrambling to find the best possible option to headline the card, Nickal claims he got a call, but he didn’t find out about it until it was too late.
“I did get a call, yeah,” Nickal revealed on his YouTube channel. “Unfortunately, I got a call while I was in the mountains of Montana and I didn’t get back to cell service for three days. I came back into cell service to a few text messages saying, ‘Call me back, call me back, call me back!’ And it was too late.”
Nickal said the offer to fight Whittaker was so real that UFC had started discussing a bump in his paycheck to accept the matchup on short notice. Sadly, the multi-time NCAA wrestling champion didn’t get to negotiate his purse because he couldn’t respond before UFC had already found a solution in Aliskerov.
“I’m not going to disclose numbers, but they were up there,” Nickal said. “But, it was just too late. I couldn’t even really consider it because they had already kind of figured everything out, the way they were going to do it, because I was gone.
“Honestly, I don’t want to go to Saudi Arabia and fight. That’s freaking far as crap.”
Bo Nickal explains why he couldn’t accept Robert Whittaker fight offer at UFC Saudi Arabia
Bo Nickal says he was actually offered the opportunity to replace Khamzat Chimaev and face Robert Whittaker at UFC Saudi Arabia.www.mmafighting.com
its BS.
A guy who has history of pulling out is main eventing in your division. You will be damn sure to keep your phone on
UFC drug testing program also needs to know about fighter whereabouts at all times for collecting samples. otherwise you could just live in 'the mountains' and avoid testing all together between fights. 'oh sorry i didn't have service' isn't gonna fly.
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Google Translate translated it from Bo Nickalish:
“I did get a call, and as far as I learned that I have to face a solid high ranked opponent and not a random lowskilled noname - I refused immediately. To remove any other speculations I decided to hide in mountains pretending like I'm hiking or training or whatever. I heard the offer was cool but who cares if I would most likely get my ass beat.”
“I did get a call, and as far as I learned that I have to face a solid high ranked opponent and not a random lowskilled noname - I refused immediately. To remove any other speculations I decided to hide in mountains pretending like I'm hiking or training or whatever. I heard the offer was cool but who cares if I would most likely get my ass beat.”
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Because he's a ginger fraud?
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Think so too but would have loved to see it.
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Dude, when you're pinned on the ground getting manhandled, unable to get up or do anything remotely offensive, you aren't doing well.
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He didn’t struggle at all, brundage just survived longer
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I don't think this would've been a good fight for Bo to take. Whitaker seems about the worst match up for grappling-based fighters and Bo still doesn't ahve much experience.
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He does though. At least here in America. My coworkers, ppl at the gym, ppl the poker table, at the disc golf course know who he is on par with Colby, Omalley, Gaethje, Volk & other B-level stars.
Other than Izzy, Strickland, & Khamzat there aren't any bigger north American stars at 185. Middle-aged middle-class Americans love college wrestling in America & Bo has been well known for years. Plus he's gotten the Trump rub.
Your personal feelings about him are irrelevant. There's a reason he's only on ppv so far.
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O'Malley, Gaethje and them aren't big names either. MMA fans need to realize that you can count the number of fighters who pull in views on one hand. Bo isn't anywhere close to being one of them, neither is O'Malley. It's literally like Conor, Khabib, Ronda, and maybe Jon Jones and Nate Diaz. That's it. If your circle of acquaintances know Bo it's probably more to do with the people in your orbit, i assure you it's not representative of the broader public. There is a second tier of "Stars" like Izzy, Max, Islam. etc. and Bo isn't even in that group either.
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