Bo Nickal felt the warmth from the New York crowd all week heading into UFC 322, and regardless of giving the followers at Madison Sq. Backyard one thing to cheer about, Nickal used it as an opportunity to offer it again.
Nickal placed on the perfect efficiency of his UFC profession within the featured prelim of Saturday’s pay-per-view card, and capped it off with a devastating third-round head kick knockout of Rodolfo Vieira — then flipped the double center fingers to the capability crowd. In his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, the Penn State wrestling standout additionally took a couple of pictures on the followers.
“Yeah, [I was] feeling like I had one thing to show,” Nickal advised MMA Preventing throughout his post-fight media scrum. “I’ve a chip on my shoulder. I want that I used to be a bit of bit higher particular person, however I’m not. I’m very aggressive and I’m only a man.
“So I’m out right here making an attempt to do my greatest however you get a bit of emotional on the market if you’re combating in your underwear in entrance of tens of millions of individuals.”
Nickal bounced again in a giant method from his first profession MMA loss, the place he was dominated and completed by Reinier de Ridder at Might’s UFC Des Moines card. It appeared to mild a hearth beneath Nickal to work even tougher to get again within the win column, and whereas he appeared fairly humble all week, the aggressive fireplace continued to grew.
The 29-year-old was requested why he selected to flip off the followers and clap again.
“I felt like I used to be simply standing up for myself a bit of bit,” Nickal defined. “They’re going to jaw at me and and provides me crap, then give it again a bit of bit. I don’t have a look at it as something different than simply standing up for myself a bit of bit. It’s not private in any respect. It’s simply letting them know the way I really feel.”
