{"id":281727,"date":"2025-11-14T03:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281727\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:22:11","slug":"anything-but-fighting-bo-nickal-answers-random-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281727\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything But Fighting: Bo Nickal answers random questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NEW YORK\u2014Ahead of UFC 322, blue-chip middleweight prospect Bo Nickal joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from Nickal\u2019s heroes (including the first autograph he ever asked for) to his favorite concerts to his life goals, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nickal looks to rebound from his first MMA loss after losing by knockout to Reinier de Ridder this past May. Prior to that setback, Nickal was 7-0 as a pro fighter, a career move he made following an incredibly successful amateur wrestling run. Nickal was a dominant force at Penn State University, winning three straight NCAA Division-I championships before transitioning to MMA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since being signed off of Dana White\u2019s Contender Series in 2022, Nickal has mostly impressed, though his loss to de Ridder and a forgettable decision win over Paul Craig have placed him at a crossroads. This Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Nickal faces another veteran test when he fights decorated Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace Rodolfo Vieira in the featured preliminary bout of UFC 322.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u2014Ahead of UFC 322, blue-chip middleweight prospect Bo Nickal joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,44,82,640,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-281727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281727","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=281727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}