Bo Nickal won\u2019t be fighting on the UFC 322 main card after all.<\/p>\n
An early bout order released by the UFC had Nickal\u2019s fight against Rodolfo Vieira featured on the main card while a battle between ranked lightweights Beneil Dariush and Benoit Saint Denis was on the preliminary card. That has changed now with a new bout order set for Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York with Nickal vs. Vieira moved down to the prelims while Dariush vs. Saint Denis now opens the UFC 322 pay-per-view main card.<\/p>\n
When the initial bout order was released there was immediate blowback due to Nickal receiving similar spots after first signing with the UFC as a highly touted prospect as a three-time NCAA champion wrestler, but without much big fight experience.<\/p>\n
Nickal kept winning and embracing the compliments and the criticism, but then ran into a brick wall after suffering a knockout loss to Reinier de Ridder back in May. Still, it looked like he was going to get a main card spot for one of the biggest UFC cards of the year and Nickal definitely embraced it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMain card UFC 322,\u201d Nickal wrote on Twitter. \u201cMaybe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the end, the UFC decided to make a change to the lineup with Dariush vs. Saint Denis now taking that main card opener spot with Nickal vs. Vieira moving to the featured prelim.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full card as it stands for UFC 322:<\/p>\n
MAIN EVENT: Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev<\/p>\n
CO-MAIN EVENT: Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili<\/p>\n
Sean Brady vs. Michael Morales<\/p>\n
Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates<\/p>\n
Beneil Dariush vs. Benoit Saint Denis<\/p>\n
Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira<\/p>\n
Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues<\/p>\n
Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez<\/p>\n
Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cody Haddon<\/p>\n
Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert<\/p>\n
Pat Sabatini vs. Chepe Mariscal<\/p>\n
Angela Hill vs. Fatima Kline<\/p>\n
Baisangur Susurkaev vs. Eric McConico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal won\u2019t be fighting on the UFC 322 main card after all. An early bout order released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-258221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258221","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=258221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}