This is the UFC 322 live blog for Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira, the featured preliminary middleweight bout Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n
One of the most decorated collegiate wrestlers of all time, Nickal (7-1) suffered his first MMA loss this past May when he was knocked out in the second round by top middleweight contender Reinier de Ridder. Prior to that setback, Nickal was 4-0 in the UFC with three finishes. The three-time Division-I NCAA wrestling champion now looks to prove that he\u2019s only more dangerous after suffering a setback.<\/p>\n
Vieira (11-3) is a legend in the Brazilian jiu-jitsu world, and he\u2019s parlayed his skills into six wins in nine UFC appearances. \u201cThe Black Belt Hunter\u201d has won three of his past four fights and an upset win over a blue-chip prospect like Nickal could make him a sleeper in the middleweight division.<\/p>\n
Check out the UFC 322 live blog for Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira below.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Bo Nickal time! He\u2019s not on the main card, but there\u2019s no question his fights continue to be a big deal. He might have been pushed a tad too quickly up the ranks, so Rodolfo Vieira feels like the right kind of recalibration. Let\u2019s see how it goes.<\/p>\n
Still a lot of public confidence in Nickal as he is a -245 favorite according to FanDuel. Vieira a 2-to-1 underdog.<\/p>\n
Referee Dan Miragliotta oversees the featured prelim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the UFC 322 live blog for Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira, the featured preliminary middleweight bout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-285929","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-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285929","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=285929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}