News Reinier de Ridder vs Bo Nickal set for UFC Des Moines on May 3

[BoxerMaurits]

High-Level BJJ/Judo vs High-Level, Wrestling… interesting fight!

 

[Goatenstein]

Nickal was so afraid to grapple Craig how scared will he be against RDR?

 

[RockyLockridge]

this is gonna be the ugliest striking fight in a good while i bet

 

[mkess101]

Nickal was so afraid to grapple Craig how scared will he be against RDR?

Sadly it may look similar. But RDR (even
though his striking is sloppy and not very good) I **think** will be willing to take more chances to force action. So Bo won't be able to just win a boring sparring match like vs Craig. Hopefully.

I could see Bo knocking RDR out if RDR is aggressive. Bo's striking is far from special, but it's tighter than RDR's and Bo has power.

 

[CroCopsLHK]

They are both a bit aged

Iirc Bo is a bit younger. I got RDR though. He seems to be doing his best and Bo is sort of skating by

 

[Leonard Haid]

No way Dana gives these guys a bonus because there won't be much beautiful standing and banging. But I love this match-up.

 

[CroCopsLHK]

I mean Bo has looked decent beyond the Crsif fight. He has an impeccable record. But it's been s bit underwhelming and with slow trajectory

Rdr is much more seasoned.

 

[Elvis.]

 

[World eater]

If RDR goes in aggressively, Bo will have his hands full. I hope the fight gets to the ground, as That’s the only part of this I’d like to see, although, as mentioned above, it might turn into a sloppy stand-up fight.

 

[Stump]

love this matchup.

Bo by TKO is my gut feeling.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

RDR is such a silly goose. I can’t not root for him.

Bo, otoh, is America’s last hope for wrestling dominance. It’s not looking that good. I think Hazmat would flatten him. If he moved up, the owl would KO of heem.

Maybe we should fire up the communist style lifeling wrestling experiments (constant tren and US vitamins) and start cultivating some real talent. We’d close that gap in 10-15 years and finally dominate MMA again. We have the gene pool and the means. Why not?

 

[AndrewGolota48]

I fear that Bo will get rocked and perhaps TKOd in this fight by one of the worst strikers in the entire division. RDR is big and durable, and he'll push the fight both with takedowns and striking. Sadly I think that alone will be enough to overwhelm Bo, make him panic and make a mental mistake that will leave him vulnerable.

I hope I'm wrong and Bo looks absolutely phenomenal, streamrolling RDR in all aspects, because I want to believe he's the American hope, but I just don't see the MMA talent at all yet. He does not look anywhere in the same universe as Chris Weidman did with a similar level of experience and training. It just goes to show you that just because Bo was light years better at the sport they both grew up doing, wrestling, that it doesn't mean Bo will be better at MMA, and in this case much worse. It is yet more counter evidence to the A-level athlete theory.

 

[AmonTobin]

I’m looking forward to watching Nickal lose 3 fights in a row because he really comes off as arrogant and delusional. It’s no crime to dream big but this guy thinks he’s god’s gift to combat sports.

 

[Tweak896]

I wanna say RDR, but it's just hard to put faith in his weird striking. Bo has shown KO power, so I'll go with him. Maybe his fight with Craig was a fluke.

 

[Harlekin]

Bo wins a boring striking match on points

 

[Scheme]

Why kill one of two up-and-comers in an already weak division?

 

[Soggust]

I bought tickets to UFC Kansas City and i'm disappointed tbh bc this card looks way better imo and I prolly should have just driven 3 hours to it a week later instead.

 

[markys00]

Sick matchup. I duno, I guess Bo gets it done? I can't quite figure this one out

 

[humdizzle]

reminds me there's a difference between normal white, and white white.

 

[JustBleed69]

RDR is going to make Bo look really bad.