{"id":360526,"date":"2025-12-21T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360526\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:37:08","slug":"yoel-romero-vs-bo-nickal-rebooked-for-raf-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360526\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero vs. Bo Nickal rebooked for RAF 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yoel Romero and Bo Nickal will get another opportunity to share the wrestling mats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following Romero\u2019s dominant tech fall win over Pat Downey at RAF 4 on Saturday, promotional officials announced that a match between Romero and the current UFC middleweight has been rebooked for RAF 5. The event takes place Jan. 10 in Sunrise, Fla., streaming exclusively on FOX Nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The pairing were scheduled to compete on Saturday\u2019s card, but Nickal was pulled for undisclosed reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Romero is also headlining BKFC\u2019s upcoming KnuckleMania 6 event in February against Lorenzo Hunt, so \u201cSoldier of God\u201d will have a busy start to 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nickal, who just recently scored a brutal knockout at UFC 322, is making his return to wrestling. Nickal was a three-time NCAA National Champion at Penn State but after coming up short to make the 2020 Olympic team, he made his transition to MMA. He now holds an 8-1 record including a 5-1 resume in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">RAF 5 is headlined by Colby Covington vs. Luke Rockhold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero and Bo Nickal will get another opportunity to share the wrestling mats. Following Romero\u2019s dominant tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360527,"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-360526","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\/360526","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=360526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}