The ink has barely dried on Bo Nickal’s UFC contract. The Contender series alumnus hasn’t even made his UFC debut yet. None of that matters to Bo Nickal, who wants to tear down one of the most feared men in MMA. Bo Nickal is once more calling out Khamzat Chimaev, promising on The MMA Hour to do to Chimaev exactly what he does to the rest of the division.
“What’s he going to do to me? Is he going to take me down? No. Is he’s going to submit me? No. Does he have a chance to knock me out? I guess, yeah, there’s a chance he knocks me out. But reality, more than likely what will happen is I’m going to drag him down to the ground, do exactly what he does to all these strikers and I’m going to do it to him.
Bo Nickal Doubles Down on Khamzat Callout
Because I’m a real grappler, I come from real wrestling. The exact thing that he’s doing to guys like Kevin Holland and Li [Jingliang], that’s what I’m going to do to him.”
Chimaev is an undefeated Chechen fighter who has, in only two years with the UFC, wrestled his way into title contention. Nickal has had his sights set on Chimaev for a while now, and Chimaev might be dismissive for the moment, but Bo Nickal has a powerful wrestling pedigree of his own.
People will act like I’m talking crazy because I say I’m ready to go — Chimaev, let’s get it — but reality is this dude won three national titles in Sweden and then came into MMA and has 10 fights. I’ve been competing since I was 5.
I had 120-plus NCAA wrestling matches. I won a U23 world championship. I’m coming with 10 times the experience you have. So when people say, ‘You’re not ready, stay in your lane’ — y’all don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, so you’ll see what happens once we get in the cage.”
Nickal doubled down, pointing out that Khamzat Chimaev might have looked just about invincible in all his most recent fights, but he believes that he alone has the tools needed to dispose of the Chechen star.
“I don’t really see too many people that can deal with his pressure and that are going to be able to take him out. I’m the guy. I’m excited for that opportunity because everybody thinks he’s untouchable and I know he’s not.”
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