UFC prospect Bo Nickal has spoken about how he wants to take responsibility for his failures as he prepares to return to the cage tomorrow night.
At UFC 322, Bo Nickal will look to get back in the win column when he takes on Rodolfo Vieira in the prelims. It serves as his first fight since suffering his first defeat in mixed martial arts, at the hands of Reinier de Ridder. RDR managed to make it a fairly one-sided affair before ultimately putting an end to the amateur wrestling sensation.
For many, this gave them permission to clown Bo Nickal for not being able to continue his win streak. Unfortunately, Bo has been through his fair share of adversity, and while he firmly believes in his ability to become a world champion in the UFC, he also knows he has to compete against the best of the best – and de Ridder certainly falls into that category.
In his scrum before the fightBo Nickal opened up about how he tends to deal with these types of defeats, and how he wants to respond.
Bo Nickal discusses recent UFC loss
“When you look at MMA and wrestling, you have no one to blame but yourself. If you lose, you can look at the judges, you can look at your opponent, but in the end it always comes back to you. It’s up to you to take responsibility, learn and continue to progress. So that’s been my approach, I embrace that.”
“The mentality for me – every day – whether I win or lose, I’m always trying to improve and get better. It doesn’t matter if I’ve won ten fights in a row or just lost my last one, I just keep pushing to be the best fighter in the world. That doesn’t change.”
Nickal knows there will be plenty of eyes on him to see how he performs against Vieira, but regardless, he has chosen to get back in there and prove himself – which, given the emphatic nature of his loss to De Ridder, is admirable in itself.
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