{"id":248445,"date":"2025-10-29T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:25:15","slug":"rage-bait-bo-nickal-reacts-to-ufc-322-main-card-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248445\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rage bait’? Bo Nickal reacts to UFC 322 main card placement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another fight, another high billing for Bo Nickal.<\/p>\n

Nickal’s fight with Rodolfo Vieira (11-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) was recently promoted to the UFC 322 main card at Madison Square Garden in New York (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+). Nickal (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) is coming off his first-career loss to Reinier de Ridder<\/a> when he was finished by Round 2 TKO at UFC on ESPN 67 in May.<\/p>\n

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After the loss, Nickal asked for a prelim spot at UFC 322<\/a>. Instead, he got his sixth-straight main card slot and has now been featured there for every one of his UFC fights.<\/p>\n

“Main card UFC 322. Maybe I have 100\u2019s of thousands of grassroots American wrestling fans or maybe it\u2019s just rage bait. Either way I can\u2019t wait to fight :).”<\/p>\n

Darren Till, who’s had his back-and-forth with Nickal<\/a> in the past, had something to say<\/a> about Nickal’s promotion to the UFC 322 main card.<\/p>\n

“How is Bo Nickal getting further up on the main card slots than the likes of Leon Edward\u2019s n that? Make it make sense. Guy hasn\u2019t earned his stripes yet.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Darren Till irked by Bo Nickal’s UFC 322 main card placement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another fight, another high billing for Bo Nickal. Nickal’s fight with Rodolfo Vieira (11-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,17832,794,786,785,19854,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-248445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bo-nickal","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-rodolfo-vieira","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}