{"id":86349,"date":"2022-10-04T05:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bo-nickal-isnt-buying-the-hype-around-khamzat-chimaev-everybody-thinks-hes-untouchable-and-i-know-hes-not\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:24:05","slug":"bo-nickal-isnt-buying-the-hype-around-khamzat-chimaev-everybody-thinks-hes-untouchable-and-i-know-hes-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bo-nickal-isnt-buying-the-hype-around-khamzat-chimaev-everybody-thinks-hes-untouchable-and-i-know-hes-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal isn’t buying the hype around Khamzat Chimaev: ‘Everybody thinks he’s untouchable and I know he’s not’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bo Nickal is just three fights into his professional fighting career and he’s already become one of the most discussed athletes on the entire UFC roster.<\/p>\n

Part of that comes from his pedigree as a three-time NCAA champion wrestler, and then there’s the eye-popping statistics, having wiped out his first three opponents in less than three minutes of total cage time. But there’s also Nickal’s unshakable confidence in himself.<\/p>\n

Even now, with zero experience in the UFC, Nickal is confident he could take out a top contender like Khamzat Chimaev. In fact, Nickal already called out Chimaev after his second win on the UFC’s Contender Series<\/em>and he’s not backing down from that challenge \u2014 even if the fight may not happen any time soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think, first off, this dude talks about he’s ready to go always, he’s a gangster, this and that \u2014 bro, you can’t even beat the scale,\u201d Nickal said on The MMA Hour<\/em>. \u201cWhat are you doing? This is just a dude that has no accountability and doesn’t treat the sport professionally. That makes me way less nervous to fight him in the future, because we’re going to fight. I know he’s not committed like I am. He’s not willing to do the things that I’m willing to do.<\/p>\n