Oh No Bo

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Bo Nickal won’t be fighting on the UFC 322 main card after all.

An early bout order released by the UFC had Nickal’s fight against Rodolfo Vieira featured on the main card while a battle between ranked lightweights Beneil Dariush and Benoit Saint Denis was on the preliminary card. That has changed now with a new bout order set for Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York with Nickal vs. Vieira moved down to the prelims while Dariush vs. Saint Denis now opens the UFC 322 pay-per-view main card.

When the initial bout order was released there was immediate blowback due to Nickal receiving similar spots after first signing with the UFC as a highly touted prospect as a three-time NCAA champion wrestler, but without much big fight experience.

Nickal kept winning and embracing the compliments and the criticism, but then ran into a brick wall after suffering a knockout loss to Reinier de Ridder back in May. Still, it looked like he was going to get a main card spot for one of the biggest UFC cards of the year and Nickal definitely embraced it.

“Main card UFC 322,” Nickal wrote on Twitter. “Maybe I have 100’s of thousands of grassroots American wrestling fans or maybe it’s just rage bait. Either way I can’t wait to fight.”

In the end, the UFC decided to make a change to the lineup with Dariush vs. Saint Denis now taking that main card opener spot with Nickal vs. Vieira moving to the featured prelim.

Here’s the full card as it stands for UFC 322:

MAIN CARD

MAIN EVENT: Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev

CO-MAIN EVENT: Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili

Sean Brady vs. Michael Morales

Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates

Beneil Dariush vs. Benoit Saint Denis

PRELIMS

Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira

Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues

Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez

Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cody Haddon

Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert

Pat Sabatini vs. Chepe Mariscal

Angela Hill vs. Fatima Kline

Baisangur Susurkaev vs. Eric McConico

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Just Plain SAD

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It’s a bit rough but he does need more experience.

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Yes and he embarrassed the wrestling community in his last fight.

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That’s damn good card. They pulled out the stops for the MSG card.

The 5 fights before the co-mains could all legitimately headline a Fight Night card.

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Good card. He’s lucky to be headlining the prelims. There are a few other fights he should be below.

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Why don’t high level American wrestlers transition well to MMA? Such a riddle.

There’s some exceptions, like Cejudo, Cormier, Hendo and Chael, but not as many as there should be.

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I don’t think it’s an issue at all.

If you want to be a champion you shouldn’t care where your fight is at. You’ll fight the guy in front of you and beat them until you’re undeniable.

Let’s see what happens with Bo.

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He embarrassed himself even mentioning Khamzat let alone that he’d beat him!

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Bo just needs a couple more years of training and a dozen more tune up fights and he’ll be ready to break into the top 10.

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I hope Bo fights better

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I really like the prates Edward’s matchup. I assume prates will move forward and force Edward’s to fight.

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This is a great fight, pratesxis aggressive and this might bring out the best Leon. If Leon stinks this fight get rid of him

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I kinda feel like thats when Leons best. I know Leon gets hate and I totally get it but not too long ago, he was pretty good.

He might be like Holly Holm. Spent all his points on beating the person with the belt and had nothing left to keep it

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