Bo Nickal is walking back on his previous comments about never fighting on the UFC prelims.<\/p>\n
Nickal has gone a perfect 3-0 to start his mixed martial arts journey with all three wins coming by first round finishes. ‘The Allen Assassin’ most recently competed at last month’s Dana White Contender Series 56 event, submitting Donovan Beard with a triangle choke in just 52 seconds (see that here<\/a>).<\/p>\n The wrestling phenom is now slated to make his official UFC debut at December’s pay-per-view event, UFC 282, where he will meet Jamie Pickett<\/a>. While speaking on a recent episode of The MMA Hour <\/a>with Ariel Helwani, Bo Nickal scoffed at the idea of competing on the UFC prelims, despite being a newcomer to the organization.<\/p>\n \u201cDo I look like, am I a prelim guy? I\u2019m not a prelim guy. If I have to fight on the prelims, I\u2019ll just retire, I\u2019m done,”<\/em> Nickal said. “I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s in the contract, but they\u2019ll (the UFC) do the right thing, they\u2019ll do the smart thing and if I\u2019m not, like I said, if I\u2019m on the prelims, I\u2019ll retire. I\u2019m out… I\u2019ve seen them do it before, put a bigger fight on the prelim, but I just, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m a main card guy, it just doesn\u2019t make sense. It\u2019s Dana White\u2019s Contender Series again, but I\u2019m main eventing Dana White\u2019s Contender Series at 2-0. Every fight I\u2019m in is the main event. So, they\u2019re putting me on the main card.”<\/em><\/p>\n Now, just twenty-four hours removed from that interview, Bo Nickal appears to have had a change of hard. The Penn State product took to Twitter this evening and suggested that fighting on the UFC prelims to start his career would be “the right thing” to do.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been thinking about it a lot\u2026 If the UFC puts a card together with 10 people who are all bigger draws than me, which is doable as there are many bigger draws than me currently, I\u2019ll fight on prelims. Pains me to say it but it\u2019d be the right thing. What do y\u2019all think?<\/p>\n — Bo Nickal (@NoBickal) October 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n