{"id":400426,"date":"2026-01-10T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400426\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:51:13","slug":"what-happened-to-bo-nickal-he-was-moving-too-fast-chasing-paychecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400426\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Bo Nickal? \u2018He was moving too fast\u2019 chasing paychecks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It helped that he was fighting warm bodies<\/a> and rusty tomato cans<\/a>, but the promotion saw enough from the NCAA Division-1 National Wrestling Champion to put him on the middleweight fast track.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was moving a bit too fast,\u201d coach Mike Brown told MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cWe all knew it. He knew it. I knew it. We all knew it. Management knew it. But he was also was getting paid very well. You\u2019re not going to get the big bucks if you\u2019re fighting guys on the prelims. If you\u2019re getting bigger paychecks, then they\u2019re going to push you and not give you layups. Experience is so much in this sport. Experience is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a fight I necessarily wanted 100 percent,\u201d Brown said about de Ridder. \u201cThere are other guys I would have rather had. De Ridder just showed that he\u2019s better than a lot of people in that division. He\u2019s capable of big things. He\u2019s got more experience than Bo and it showed. That\u2019s the fight game. In this game, everybody loses or 99.9 percent of every great UFC fighter loses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It helped that he was fighting warm bodies and rusty tomato cans, but the promotion saw enough from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-400426","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-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400426","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=400426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}