Bo Nickal has successfully made weight for UFC Des Moines after allegedly tipping the scales 37lb above the load at the beginning of fight week.
Middleweight contender Nickal faces former ONE Championship title holder Reinier De Ridder in the most important step up yet of his profession on Saturday night. The pair fight within the co-main event of UFC Des Moines, which is headlined by a bantamweight clash between Cory Sandhagen and Deiveson Figueiredo.
Nickal has never come near missing weight before in his UFC profession, but fans were keen to see him on the dimensions today. 4 days ago, he shared a video claiming that he weighed deep into heavyweight territory before starting his cut.
Bo Nickal makes weight after alleged 37lb cut for UFC Des Moines
This morning within the fighter hotel for UFC Des Moines, Bo Nickal tipped the scales at 185.5lb for his fight with Reinier De Ridder. He was relatively early to the scales, and each men made the identical weight, with the Dutchman in truth looking worse for wear of the 2.
It seemed relatively run of the mill, with neither man having a problem with making weight of their collective 28 skilled bouts. But what made it an intriguing moment was a video shared by Nickal just a few days ago where he stepped on the scales and seemed to be 222.6lb.
That meant he was facing a cut of virtually 37lb in every week, which might have been disastrous for his preparations. Nonetheless, it is probably going that the video is staged for promotion, with Nickal visibly wearing loads of clothes within the clip and being out of shot when the number shows up on the dimensions.
It is sort of actually a faked video posted with the intention of going viral and helping to advertise this, his biggest fight thus far within the UFC.
Bo Nickal opened up about massive ‘bulk’ ahead of UFC Des Moines
Nickal maintains that the video is legitimate, and told MMAFighting earlier this week that he had simply gone a bit of too heavy together with his pre-fight bulking. He insisted that the video was legitimate, noting that he was lighter when he removed his clothes and shoes.
“It’s the most important cut [for a fight] needless to say,” Nickal said. “I believe that I’m at all times seeking to adjust things and be sure that that I’m, in each camp and every training cycle, improving and improving, and I felt just like the [extra] size is something that’s good for me.”
During an earlier a part of the interview, he added: “An enormous a part of my last camp these previous few months has been to bulk up. I felt like that’s something that I desired to give attention to was getting my weight a bit of higher and ensuring that I’m a full-size middleweight.
“So coming in at the load, it’s just a part of the job for me. Bringing the load down is something that I’m used to. With wrestling, I’ve weighed in in a whole lot of times since I’ve been at a young age and it’s business as usual for me.
“In order that was definitely a bit of greater than what I’m used to, but a part of the job. No worries… It was a bit of heavier than what I expected, and I used to be wearing a hoodie and stuff like that.
“So it was a bit of lower than what we saw on the dimensions, but, yeah, I knew I had loads of work to do at that moment, nevertheless it is again, a part of the job.”
