Bo Nickal claims to have been offered a short-notice booking against Robert Whittaker at UFC Saudi Arabia, which he couldn’t accept due to some unfortunate circumstances.
on Saturday. However, Chimaev pulled out of the fight nine days before the event due to health concerns. Chimaev will now be replaced on short notice by
While the fight has now been finalized, Nickal revealed that he was also on the list of potential contenders to replace Chimaev. Nickal claims to have received a call to step up for UFC Saudi Arabia, which he couldn’t answer as he didn’t have service. After three days in the mountains of Montana with no network signal, Nickal returned to multiple messages requesting callbacks. However, by then it was too late, as the UFC had already finalized the new main event for Saudi Arabia.
“I did get a call. Unfortunately, I got a call when I was in the mountains of Montana and I didn’t get back to cell service for three days,” Nickal said on his YouTube channel. “So, I came back into cell service to a few text messages saying, ‘Call me back, call me back, call me back,’ and it was too late. And I’m not gonna like disclose numbers, but they were up there. But it was just too late.
While Nickal was leaning toward Whittaker against Chimaev, he believes Aliskerov has a stylistic advantage against the former middleweight champion. “I was too given the scenario and stuff,” Nickal said. “But I don’t know man, depends of how ready he is and stuff. I just think that style-wise Ikram will probably win.”via first round KO in 2019. Aliskerov has finished nine of his 15 career wins, which includes a back-to-back first round stoppages to begin his UFC tenure.
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