Bo Nickal thinks he’s a bad matchup for UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya . Nickal (3-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is just three fights into his professional MMA career, but the three-time Division I national wrestling champion predicts he’ll be fighting top competition in the UFC within a year. Adesanya (23-1 MMA, 12-1 UFC) is unbeaten as a middleweight and has already defended his title five times. But Nickal thinks with his decorated wrestling background, he’d be a problem for “The Stylebender.” “Of course, if I’m going in there with a guy like Israel Adesanya, yeah, he’s a killer on the feet,” Nickal said in an interview with Michael Bisping. “He can knock anybody out, he has amazing striking, and that goes without saying. Anytime you go into a fight there’s a risk of being knocked out.
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