Like a Bitter Patch Child, Bo Nickal is humble when reflecting on his first loss, however has a scathing message to the haters discovering pleasure in his setback.
Bo Nickal seems to be taking his first skilled loss in stride, however he additionally has a nasty message for anybody having fun with his setback.
Nickal (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) suffered the primary lack of his MMA profession at UFC on ESPN 67 when Reinier de Ridder finshed him within the second spherical after a sequence of laborious strikes within the second spherical. The wrestling expertise did not have a lot to supply de Ridder exterior of grappling and appeared just a few ranges behind within the putting division.
Nickal says he hasn’t watched the combat in full but as a result of he has a reasonably clear recollection of what went down, together with returning to his stool after Spherical 1 considering the combat wasn’t getting into his course.
“I am going to watch that combat again sooner or later, however I take a look at it as only a blueprint of what to not do,” Nickal mentioned on his YouTube channel. “So, that is an enormous plus as a result of I can not take a look at it and say like, ‘Effectively, I did every little thing I might and he acquired me.’ It was like – I did in my effort-wise, however the errors that I made had been simply so apparent to me. Fixable, apparent errors. And I believe he is an important man, he is an important opponent, so he pressured me into these errors, and I did not appropriate, or I did not alter. That is what you need to do if you wish to be one of the best on the earth.”
Nickal’s hype as a nationwide champion wrestler led him to turn out to be an enormous betting favourite in his MMA fights, and till the combat in opposition to de Ridder, he proved the oddsmakers appropriate. He began out his UFC profession with back-to-back first-round finishes, adopted by a second-round stoppage win. Nonetheless, the competiton began to get stiffer, and he would go the space with Paul Craig in his fourth UFC combat. Then the primary profession loss got here in opposition to de Ridder, a former two-division champion underneath the ONE Championship banner.
“I by no means wished to be an undefeated UFC champion,” Nickal said. “I by no means mentioned that. You may go look again and clip out interviews and stuff like that. My purpose has by no means been to be undefeated. I used to be completely conscious that losses had been very, very doable and sure. … The purpose is not any totally different. I simply wish to proceed to get higher and enhance. I wish to learn how good I will be, and actually it is leaning on God’s plan for me extra so than my very own.”
Now that the zero is gone from his loss column, Nickal can proceed to proceed with out the stress of sustaining an unblemished file. He mentioned he does not intend to be a fighter who loses greater than he wins, however being somebody who has skilled losses and bounced again from them is one thing followers can relate to greater than an undefeated champion.
For the followers that do not relate and would quite ship him hate, Nickal did not mince phrases.
“All of the unfavorable, for me, I take a look at that and all I say is rather like, suck my d*ck,” Nickal mentioned. “On the finish of the day, say what you need. However after I get again on high and I am the freaking champion of the world, you all will come crawling again. They all the time do. And I am going to spit proper in your face.
“… That is how I am going to deal with you guys. And each single certainly one of you that claims a nasty factor, I’ve the reminiscence of an elephant.”
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