After winning four fights in a row since joining the UFC, Bo Nickal is starting to assess potential opponents he could be paired up with next in the middleweight division’s Top 15 rankings.
“Any guy in the top 15, from [No. 15 to 10], is a tough fight,” Nickal told the ‘Pound For Pound’ podcast. “There’s nobody in the UFC that isn’t good, right? You can take any of these guys, even these guys that I’m knocking out and destroying, put them on a regional promotion and they’re an all-star. They’re the best guy in the entire organization. It’s something for me, I’m totally excited to fight all the best guys. Anybody in the 10 to 15 range poses interesting tests, interesting threats.
“I don’t know the top 15 exactly but I’m thinking guys like [Michel] Pereira, Anthony Hernandez is there, Shara Bullet, [Roman] Kopylov, [Roman] Dolidze, [Paulo] Costa. Even a guy I know he bounces up and down from 170 to [185 pounds] but Kevin Holland, he’s got a lot of knockout wins. So guys like that, they all pose interesting threats.
“They’re all guys I could have trouble with but at the same time, I believe in my skill set, I believe in what I’m capable of doing and as I continue to train, and work more on the striking, work more on the jiu-jitsu and blending it all together, I think I can also dominate a lot of those guys and make it look easy.”
