{"id":231399,"date":"2025-10-22T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:08:09","slug":"bo-nickal-embraces-ufc-322-prelims-after-humbling-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231399\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal Embraces UFC 322 Prelims After Humbling Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight prospect Bo Nickal is set to return <\/a>for the first time since suffering his first professional loss when he faces<\/a> Rodolfo Vieira next month at UFC 322<\/a> inside the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City.<\/p>\n

Because the card is absolutely stacked<\/a>, there\u2019s a strong chance Nickal will compete on the Prelims for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n

For those who may not remember, Nickal once went viral for saying he would \u201cretire<\/a>\u201d if the UFC ever put him on the \u201cPrelims\u201d<\/a>. At the time, the three-time NCAA Division I national champion believed his star power warranted main-card billing every time out \u2014 a stance that drew criticism from fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the specific instance when you asked me if I was going to be on the prelims, and I scoffed at it,\u201d Nickal told Ariel Helwani today. \u201cI was definitely arrogant, but there was a little bit of truth to that in my position, but at the same time, it was arrogant. So, now I don\u2019t really care where I fight. If UFC wants to put me first on the fight card, then I\u2019m happy to do it. It\u2019s definitely part of this humbling\u2026I don\u2019t feel like I should get anything I don\u2019t deserve, and I want to earn everything I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nickal (7-1) is coming off a second-round TKO loss to Reinier de Ridder (watch highlights<\/a>) and is looking to rebuild himself as a future Middleweight contender when he takes on his third straight elite grappler inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n

Checkout who else is fighting on UFC 321 right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight prospect Bo Nickal is set to return for the first time since suffering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-231399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}