Bo Nickal's Garden War: From Wrestling Champ to UFC Savage!
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
BT & Sal step into the studio with UFC Middleweight star Bo Nickal ahead of his main prelim event at UFC 322 at Madison Square Garden. Nickal, an elite wrestling champion, talks about navigating the nerve-wracking emotions of fight night and how he's using his first-ever career loss as "massive motivation" for his upcoming bout.
The conversation ignites when they discuss the low-key feeling of being a fighter who could "disable" anyone on the street, the debate over UFC vs. Boxing (Bo calls MMA a "complete sport"), and his thoughts on the constant temptation to fix a fight in the sport. Plus, Nickal opens up about his relationships with Kyler Murray and the late Hulk Hogan, and a surprising reveal about a potential UFC event at the White House after speaking with President Trump. Sal is so sold, he declares he's "hammering" a bet on Nickal's comeback!
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| 0:50.6 | Fighting as main event on Maine prelims, |
| 0:53.5 | Saturday, November 15th, this Saturday at the Garden, UFC 322. Bo, how are you? Doing well. Appreciate you all having me on. Dude, are you nervous at all? Like, I'm not a big fight guy. I'm a little bit of a wuss. We've talked about that. You get in there. You throw fast. You're getting banged up. I see the ears and all that you're nervous at all before a fight yeah of course i mean you're gonna go fight another dude in your underwear in front of millions of people so it's a little bit nerve-wracking uh i think a lot of fighters try to you know play it off but it's definitely nerve-racking for sure and it's different in the garden let's face it oh yeah i mean so. I mean, so the heightened sensation and, you know, listen, I mean, number one, you got to be able to do the requisite moves in the, and in fight, that's clear. But to juggle the emotions before a fight and not be too high, not be too low, I think that's a really underrated challenge. How do you navigate that? |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah, absolutely. For me, I think that it's been a long journey and learning those lessons. |
| 1:50.2 | You know, I started wrestling competitively at five years old, and I was on a lot of big stages |
| 1:54.6 | throughout my youth career, high school career. I was actually able to compete in Madison Square Garden |
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