Media Bo Nickal on Khamzat Chimaev: "I'm getting finishes, this guy's winning decisions"

[svmr_db]

 

[duke_droese]

Bo-llshit guy

 

[Istryker]

he's setting himself up big time with these comments

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Khamzats fighting guys like Usman, Holland, Burns
Bo Nickal is fighting Cody Brunage, and some other bums im too lazy to go to wikipedia to search for

 

[Objectively Correct]

I’m getting finishes, this guy’s winning decisions…

I mean he's not wrong but he's also getting layups

 

[blaseblase]

Khamzat was also getting finishes when he was facing Brundage level opponents.

 

[svmr_db]

Khamzats fighting guys like Usman, Holland, Burns
Bo Nickal is fighting Cody Brunage, and some other bums im too lazy to go to wikipedia to search for

He fought that Lawnmower man too, a very tough opponent!

 

[AmonTobin]

Why is he comparing himself to Chimaev? Khamzat is fighting former champions and contenders. This guy is fighting the next can to get cut.

 

[Istryker]

Khamzat was also getting finishes when he was facing Brundage level opponents.

Yup

 

[duke_droese]

Bo should have stayed on the regional circuit a little longer.

UFC are doing him a disservice giving him so much exposure at this stage of his career.

Like they were claiming he'd upped his striking when he beat that short notice manlet Val Venus or whatever his name was.

He still has a long way to go.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Bo-llshit guy

Lanklet Gaethje needs a reality check really quick.

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Bo Nickal's career

 

[ChessJitsu]

This Bo guy is corny for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it's obvious that there's a competition-level difference between a guy who's fighting ranked opponents & former champions and a guy who's fighting fighters who aren't even UFC-caliber.

Secondly, Bo is not an Olympic-medalist but he acts like one and gets hyped as much as one. In Russia, being a college wrestling champion is a laughable bragging-point. Your average wrestler in Dagestan can go toe-to-toe with American college-champions. Having college titles in wrestling is something that only has meaning and significance in America. In Russia, if you don't get into the Olympics, you don't end up with many wrestling credentials, you just end up going into Sambo or MMA. Like, you take Bo Nickal and put him in Russia and instead of his college wrestling career stuff, he'll just be a run-of-the-mill Dagestani wrestler.

Also, just in his general interviews, you can tell Bo doesn't know much about the wrestling circuit in Russia/Dagestan, which is surprising because we know where the best wrestlers in the world come from.

He says things like "Khabib/Islam don't have much of a background in wrestling. They're Sambo guys".

This guy doesn't realize that in the Caucuses, if you don't go into the wrestling Olympics you make your mark in Sambo.

There's no prominent college wrestling circuit where non-Olympic medalist caliber guys like Bo can make their mark.

The kind of comments Bo makes about Khabib and Islam is comparable to some local MMA organization champion talking shit about fighters who are in the UFC but aren't champions just because the local MMA guy is a champion in a tiny org and the contenders in the UFC who are leagues beyond him aren't.

 

[usernamee]

This has to be trolling on his part because he knows it will rile people up. If not he's incredibly delusional..

 

[svmr_db]

Bo should have stayed on the regional circuit a little longer.

UFC are doing him a disservice giving him so much exposure at this stage of his career.

Like they were claiming he'd upped his striking when he beat that short notice manlet Val Venus or whatever his name was.

He still has a long way to go.

Yeah it's gonna be a while before he's ready for ranked opponents, he mentioned possibly fighting guys like Anthony Hernandez & Roman Kopylov, those aren't easy fights for him right now.

I say give him Weidman next imo. Probably not as easy of a fight as people think, unlikely Bo would control & submit him with the ease he's had in his wins so far.

 

[Pechan]

Bro...this is why we boo Bo.

 

[Iroh]

I'm 50/50 on whether he is trolling or just really, really oblivious and deluted.

 

[svmr_db]

I'm 50/50 on whether he is trolling or just really, really oblivious.

Wait, you mean wins over Cody Brundage & Valentine Woodburn aren't worth as much as wins over Kamaru Usman & Gilbert Burns?

 

[dildos]

i dont even like canzat but lol, bo needs to look at the level of fighters they are facing.

imo both burns and usman beat canzat but bo has not even faced a top 5 fighter or a previously ranked champion fighter.

bo is a fucking chicken and we all know it.

 

[kwijyboy]

It would be interesting to watch. They both can get control but similarly limited finishing moves.