Bo Nickal: Khamzat Chimaev’s wrestling is ‘trash’

Broken-down Penn Sigh wrestling well-known person Bo Nickal says that it’s inevitable that he someday fights Khamzat Chimaev in the UFC cage — and that once that occurs, the shall be equally inevitable. 

Nickal, the three-time NCAA Division I nationwide champion, has been flawless in his transient mixed martial arts career to this point, profitable every of his legitimate fights in the middle of the predominant spherical, most now not too prolonged in the past a 38-2nd knockout of Val Woodburn at UFC 290 in July.

His wrestling credentials bear led to ideas that his ascent to summit of the UFC’s middleweight fold in a undeniable ingredient. That’s a direction, though, which would presumably relate him on a collision direction with any other well-regarded grappler in the division in Khamzat Chimaev. But when that delusion matchup turns into a truth, Nickal says that it would be a one-sided wrestle.

“It’s trash,” Nickal said of Chimaev’s wrestling chops on the Clash of Fight podcast, as renowned by MiddleEasy. “I wouldn’t even relate mid.”

He added: “At the discontinue of the day, I have confidence like I will relate no topic about his wrestling talents, this and that, we’re gonna wrestle at some level and folks will perceive there’s levels,. It’s fair correct so silly, you plug into an global of MMA the save apart there’s no assorted sport the save apart folks know less and recount they know more.”

Nickal is presently with out a wrestle and has urged that he would possibly maybe perchance well sit out from opponents unless next year, while Chimaev is scheduled to wrestle Paulo Costa in a middleweight contest in the UFC 294 co-predominant occasion in Abu Dhabi on October Twenty first.

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