The UFC is pushing Bo Nickal, but I'm not buying. Here's why.

They pushed him too fast. He should have stayed in the regional promotions to get some experience.
 
It seems like people are starting to catch on, dude isn't a better prospect than Joe Pyfer.

His interviews make him look completely delusional and ripe for an embarrassing loss.
 
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I agree with everything that’s been said here. But then it had me thinking “what if he actually knows this?”. Is he supposed to publicly admit “hey, this looked easy on TV, but now I realize it has nothing to do with wrestling and I don’t have ‘it’ ”?.

Or even to himself, which would mean accepting his ceiling and perhaps a mediocre career ahead? How do you go and train to do your best everyday in that lower mindset after having been so highly touted?

That’s a lot to overcome mentally.
Just like former champions who are on the way down and seem delusional. So that may be why he’s saying what he’s saying.
 
Dreyga_King of Sherbums said:
What??? You don’t think he can get any better? After two years of training he has maxed out….

What???



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He has reached his ceiling in that he will never have the hands to compete at the top. He can improve absolutely butI have never seen a man go from where he’s at striking to a good striker. Not once at his age. He loses every last fight standing vs the top 15
 
I think Bo Nickal should consider cutting down to 170. He looked tiny compared to Paul Craig. If Paul Craig can make 185, then Bo Nickal can make 170.
 
Paul Craig is a .500 fighter.

He was coming off back to back stoppage losses - tapped by Allen and KO'd by Caio. He is literally 1-3 at middleweight.

Bo went to a razor thin point fighting decision with him. Yes Bo is still a prospect and he can still get better, but his stock just went down. He would get embarrassed by top 10 competition. He just barely got by a guy who was handed to him on a platter to be an easy win.

The whole 'I'm coming for the belt' and 'I'm coming for Khamzat' routine is a joke. He turns 29 next month, he can get better, but not radically better in the next few years.
 
Bo reminds me of when Bellator went on that stretch of signing great wrestlers who had no fight experience where they were paying them big money to get built up slowly. Didn't really work out great for them.

Ed Ruth - big disappointment and really was a better prospect than Bo was entering the sport if you made me pick.

Aaron Pico - some major road bumps, hasn't went as expected, with that said I'm a bit of a Pico truther and still think he has champion potential.

Joey Davis - average fighter. Good wrestler not at Bo's level.

Romero Cotton - average.

Tyrell Fortune - average


But yea they already kind of did the Bo route with Ed Ruth to a T. It just kept being failed hype trains, I think Bo gets somewhere between 4-8th ranked thanks to company wise match making, although Craig wasn't a wise matchup.
 
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Dreyga_King of Sherbums said:
The man has been training MMA for 2 years and he is in the TOP 15.

He literally started training in 2022.

He only has 7 fights and just beat a man with 37 fights who has been training MMA for 12 years

You mad he’s only fought can most people at 7 fights are on the regionals?

Frankly I think they are moving along way to fast but you want him to be moved along faster??

What he has accomplished thus far is extraordinary.

I think you have utterly UNREALISTIC expectations.
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I have to agree with you.

Khabib had 18-20 fights before he appeared on a UFC dark card
 
Meathead Jock said:
Bo reminds me of when Bellator went on that stretch of signing great wrestlers who had no fight experience where they were paying them big money to get built up slowly. Didn't really work out great for them.

Ed Ruth - big disappointment and really was a better prospect than Bo was entering the sport of you made me pick.

Aaron Pico - some major road bumps, hasn't went as expected, with that said I'm a bit of a Pico truther and still think he has champion potential.

Joey Davis - average fighter. Good wrestler not at Bo's level.

Romero Cotton - average.

Tyrell Fortune - average


But yea they already kind of did the Bo route with Ed Ruth to a T. It just kept being failed hype trains, I think Bo gets somewhere between 4-8th ranked thanks to company wise match making, although Craig wasn't a wise matchup.
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Aaron Pico can't be counted as a great wrestler. He wrestled in high school not college. As soon as he graduated high school he dedicated binding full time to MMA and worked on his striking a lot.

Tbh he was a much better fighter than that blonde headed karate kid the UFC signed. Sage.
 
Mind Mine said:
He has reached his ceiling in that he will never have the hands to compete at the top. He can improve absolutely butI have never seen a man go from where he’s at striking to a good striker. Not once at his age. He loses every last fight standing vs the top 15
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Wasn’t Paul Craig in the top 15 and headlining cards not all that long ago?
 
Bend NvR Break said:
Aaron Pico can't be counted as a great wrestler. He wrestled in high school not college. As soon as he graduated high school he dedicated binding full time to MMA and worked on his striking a lot.

Tbh he was a much better fighter than that blonde headed karate kid the UFC signed.
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Sage Northcutt?

Pico won some U17 world team golds and was the number 1/2 recruit in his h.s. class that's good enough for me to be considered a great wrestler.

But yea, I wish his was more active. If his shoulder didn't give out on him in that fight last year I think he'd be champ right now. Even with the short comings the potential still seems really high with the power in his hands.
 
Meathead Jock said:
Sage Northcutt?

Pico won some U17 world team golds and was the number 1/2 recruit in his h.s. class that's good enough for me to be considered a great wrestler.

But yea, I wish his was more active. If his shoulder didn't give out on him in that fight last year I think he'd be champ right now. Even with the short comings the potential still seems really high with the power in his hands.
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Yep sage
 
Bo has talked lots of shit but at the same time that's got him a 6 figure contract and bouts on the main cards. Sounds like a very good strategy to me. Talk that shit. More fighters should be talking that shit.
 
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