Bo Nickal is taking a ton of heat following the first loss of his MMA career.
The three-time NCAA Division I national champion wrestler boldly backed himself to beat Khamzat Chimaev as a -1000 favorite before facing former two-weight ONE titleholder, Reinier de Ridder, at UFC Des Moines on Saturday night.
However, Nickal got ‘fraud checked’ during his second-round TKO defeat against De Ridder.
UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis loved seeing the 7-1 prospect lose, and so did many other people who had grown tired of Bo Nickal talking a big game before facing a true test inside the UFC Octagon.
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Luke Rockhold rips Bo Nickal
Luke Rockhold knows what it takes to make it to the top of the UFC middleweight division.
After watching him lose last weekend, the former 185lb champion is happy to write off Nickal.
“Bo Nickal is pretty pathetic,” Rockhold told Submission Radio.
“Talking a big game, but he was looking for a way out from the first round on.
“The kid just needs to shut up. Bo just quit like a little b—-.
“There is such a thing as competitors. Wrestlers can be competitors but they cannot be fighters all the time. This kid is not a fighter, he’s a competitor, and he’s really a p— at heart.
“He doesn’t have it, he ain’t gonna have it. Even if he stuck to wrestling, he doesn’t have the wherewithal on the ground to put people away. The degree at the top is different.”
Dana White told to cut Bo Nickal
Shockingly, another former UFC star went one step further than Rockhold after UFC Des Moines.
Dana White was told to cut Bo Nickal from the UFC by former lightweight contender Josh Thomson.
He said on the Weighing In podcast: “The way he lost… the UFC, I’m really telling him, like, ‘You know what? You need to spend probably a good eight months, and you need to go you need to tighten up everything’.
“’We’re gonna give you some time…We’re gonna almost do like what we did with Mason Jones or what we did with Youssef Zalal, and we’re gonna send you off a little bit. We’ll give you eight months or whatever.’
“He needs work. It was very telling how much work he needs.”