Bo Nickal will need to win a few more fights before going toe-to-toe with the best middleweights in the world, but once he gets there he believes a fight against the undefeated Khamzat Chimaev is the biggest matchup to make.
work in progress.
UFC Des Moines this coming May and will have his chance to prove he’s ready for top 10 competition. Some fight fans are already counting Nickal out, but the undefeated middleweight is confident he can escape victorious.
showdown with Chimaev, who is on the cusp of his first-ever UFC title shot. As far as Nickal is concerned, it’s the best matchup to make in the UFC right now outside of Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall and Islam Makhachev vs. Ilia Topuria.
“100%, that’s the most exciting fight there is in the division in my opinion,” said Nickal when asked about a fight against Chimaev over current UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis (via Home of Fight). “I think as far as the fights in the UFC, you’ve got at the top, Jones and Aspinall, you got Ilia potentially with Islam or another 55’er and then I think right after that, the most exciting fight next is me and Khamzat. That’s something that the fans need to see, that I want to see, I’m sure he wants it as well so I just got to keep winning fights and we’ll make it happen.”
What are your thoughts, Maniacs? Is Nickal vs. Khamzat really a top-tier matchup or does Nickal have some delusion of grandeur at this stage in his career?
Let’s discuss!
