{"id":36565,"date":"2022-06-04T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/no-takedowns-needed-watch-wrestling-star-bo-nickal-win-mma-debut-with-brutal-ko\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:19:25","slug":"no-takedowns-needed-watch-wrestling-star-bo-nickal-win-mma-debut-with-brutal-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/no-takedowns-needed-watch-wrestling-star-bo-nickal-win-mma-debut-with-brutal-ko\/","title":{"rendered":"No takedowns needed &#8211; Watch wrestling star Bo Nickal win MMA debut with brutal KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"HwszG0\">Decorated wrestling champ Bo Nickal won his professional MMA debut on Friday night.  Interestingly enough, he didn&#8217;t even need to use that vaunted grappling skills, as the 26-year-old showcased his striking di lui and won with a brutal KO in under a minute.<\/p>\n<p id=\"X8GV5v\">Nickal, a three-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion and 2019 US Open champion, has been working with American Top Team to hone his MMA game and it seems to be paying off.<\/p>\n<p id=\"35BWAS\">After going 2-0 in 2021 as an amateur, Nickal had his professional MMA fight against fellow debutant John Noland at iKON FC 3. Fighting as a middleweight, Nickal dropped Noland with a left straight just thirty seconds in, and followed up with a combination that put him out completely shortly after. <\/p>\n<p id=\"N55Vlp\">Watch the brutal finish below:<\/p>\n<p id=\"Zzu80i\">In 2019 alone, Nickal won his third NCAA Division I title, his third Big Ten Championship, along with taking gold at the US National Championships and the U-23 World Championships.  He competed from 197 to 213 lbs as a wrestler, but competed both as an amateur and a professional in MMA at 185 lbs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decorated wrestling champ Bo Nickal won his professional MMA debut on Friday night. Interestingly enough, he didn&#8217;t even need to use that vaunted grappling skills, as the 26-year-old showcased his striking di lui and won with a brutal KO in under a minute. Nickal, a three-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion and 2019 US Open &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/no-takedowns-needed-watch-wrestling-star-bo-nickal-win-mma-debut-with-brutal-ko\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No takedowns needed &#8211; Watch wrestling star Bo Nickal win MMA debut with brutal KO<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/p1jALg0dZtWA88yrg9hhFVfLp2U=\/0x0:4528x2371\/fit-in\/1200x630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23607323\/1310521334.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}