{"id":401741,"date":"2026-01-11T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:02:15","slug":"oh-no-bo-nickal-vs-yoel-romero-yanked-from-raf-05-event-after-last-second-weight-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401741\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no! Bo Nickal vs. Yoel Romero yanked from RAF 05 event after last-second weight miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bo Nickal will not be competing later tonight (Sat., Jan. 10, 2026) at RAF 05 from inside Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., following an unexpected weight miss by 48-year-old Yoel Romero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday afternoon, Real American Freestyle (RAF) released an announcement on social media that Romero had missed weight (Nickal later revealed it was a seven-pound miss) and was yanked from his matchup with Nickal. Romero will now compete against Stephen Buchanan, but Nickal has been removed from the card entirely. In addition, Romero has been stripped of the RAF light heavyweight title, which has been awarded to Nickal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the official announcement below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately for Nickal, he won\u2019t get a chance to display his world-class wrestling tonight in an anticipated showdown with Romero. After having to deal with Colby Covington and Luke Rockhold\u2019s antics on Friday night Nickal will be packing his bags and heading back home early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out Nickal\u2019s reaction to the cancelation below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more RAF 05 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/413127\/covington-vs-rockhold-raf-05-live-discussion-results-and-highlights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal will not be competing later tonight (Sat., Jan. 10, 2026) at RAF 05 from inside Amerant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-401741","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401741","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=401741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}