{"id":687362,"date":"2026-05-22T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:09:08","slug":"daukaus-on-ufc-white-house-gig-bo-nickal-was-looking-for-an-easier-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687362\/","title":{"rendered":"Daukaus on UFC White House gig: \u2018Bo Nickal was looking for an easier fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a UFC White House card<\/a> full of big names and popular stars, Kyle Daukaus sticks out like a sore thumb.<\/a> Daukaus is set to fight Bo Nickal on the seven-fight card, and it\u2019s hard for fans not to question whether he\u2019s there as a soft opponent for the All American Nickal.<\/p>\n

Even Daukaus suspects that\u2019s why he\u2019s on the card. In an interview with Home of Fight, Daukaus discussed the booking, how the UFC pulled him from a signed fight with Vicente Luque to jam him onto the White House card, and how he probably got a fight that was supposed to go to Colby Covington.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think Bo was looking for an easier fight and easier match-up,\u201d Daukaus said. \u201cI would too if I was in Bo\u2019s shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, yeah, I think it was all noise,\u201d he continued regarding the Colby Covington vs. Bo Nickal<\/a> talk. \u201cI will come out and say that I actually did message Colby, and I was like, \u2018Yo, dude. What do you think about maybe walking me out to the fight?\u2019 Just kinda get the fans liking it, maybe get kinda in Bo\u2019s head. He agreed to it, but I was like, maybe I\u2019ll just back off of this a little bit \u2026 and we kinda just got away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dNow he\u2019s retired. He\u2019s retired,<\/a> so it is what it is,\u201d Daukaus said. \u201cHe said he would. I did have some messages back and forth with them. But now that ship\u2019s all sailed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it is what it is,\u201d Daukaus said. \u201cHe can have fans. I mean, I\u2019m sure everybody that is rooting for him wants him to beat me, but I have all these people that want me to beat him. So just as equal, it doesn\u2019t really matter it\u2019s the president. I\u2019ll just say sorry that I beat him, but that\u2019s about it \u2026 I think a good finish would get [Trump] on my side.\u201d<\/p>\n

After getting cut by the UFC in 2022, Daukaus went on a four fight winning streak. Back with the UFC, he\u2019s now 2-0 with the promotion with two first round stoppages. As for Bo Nickal, he bounced back from his first career MMA loss<\/a> to Reinier de Ridder with a head kick KO of Rodolfo Viera. We\u2019ll see if he\u2019s fully back on track at UFC White House, or if Daukaus ends up playing the spoiler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a UFC White House card full of big names and popular stars, Kyle Daukaus sticks out like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396,125620],"class_list":["post-687362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687362","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=687362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}