Name: Bo Nickal Only Started Training for MMA 2 Years Ago
Uploaded: 2023-12-21T18:43:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bo Nickal Only Started Training for MMA 2 Years Ago' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bo Nickal Only Started Training for MMA 2 Years Ago' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-21. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience it's been so interesting my my journey I feel like I
always try to look for people to compare and see how they did things and maybe
take the positives and negatives and and apply those to what I'm doing and
there
really hasn't been that many people that have done what what I've done I'm 5-0
right now I started training in August of 2021 MMA that's hilarious yeah I
started so I started that really is so funny that is so fucking crazy yeah yeah
I know it's what Dana White originally was like that you like wait a while yeah
like I don't want you to be in the UFC so that it'll get bring me around to to
the
point you made so what happened was I started training four weeks later I was
like yeah like what's I'm free let's get a fight so I took an amateur fight and
just
some poor dude like didn't know what he's doing he was oh not or one or no
amateur I was oh no and and he took the fight and I think a lot of people there
was a lot of question marks people like all right I don't know like let's see
let's see what's up and I choked the guy out and I was like let's go again four
weeks later I fought my second amateur fight knocked the dude out cold and then
I then I was like all right well I wanted to put a show together in my hometown
in
state college and so I was working for a few months to get that going and it
just
there was the PA athletic commission is working between my management team the
PA
athletic commission and Penn State there was just too many moving parts it was
tough and
I was like I need to fight so you know I could wait like four more months and
do this or I
could just get a fight so then I had trained another six months six seven
months and I was
like let's do a pro debut and that was in June of 2022 and so I'm coming out
against a you know
another poor guy who thought like he was gonna knock me out or something and
knock him out in 30 seconds
on UFC Fight Pass and it did like the most views in UFC Fight Pass history like
more than any other
promotion it was like something like three or four million views in the week
and so then and it did a
bunch that night there it is yeah this is it this is eight months of training
it's just that's what's
crazy is that you're you're such a good striker so quick yeah it's really nuts
man it really is
very very unusual but I just think it's got to be the same mindset that allowed
you to get a lead
at wrestling you just program that into striking yeah that's exactly exactly
what it is on top of
good high quality coaches and training partners like everything that's
everything and uh so so after
this happened the next morning UFC Bellator 1FC PFL boom boom boom call it let's
do it let's do it
and I'm like what the frick like I'm 1-0 pro I've haven't even trained like I've
been training eight
months or whatever nine months so was there hesitancy on your part where you
like oh look I'd like to get
some more fights more competition because we've seen it before yeah like Pejeta
is a great example
he's got a couple fights at the UFC and then all of a sudden he's fighting for
the title yeah yeah so
my initial plan like before any of this happened was I'm gonna get 10 fights
and the regional scene
you know and then I'm gonna go UFC I'm gonna be the champ by like 13 14 fights
like that's what I
that's what the plan was and uh then after that it was like everybody kind of
knows what's up
everybody's trying to sign me and um I talked with my manager and I was like
dude am I even gonna be
able to get a fight like who's gonna fight me like on these regional scene
promotion like who's
gonna fight me in any of these in and he's like I'll be honest with you like
nobody's gonna fight
you and I'm like okay well then you know my mind I was always I'm going to the
UFC like you know
these other organizations I I think they do a good job and stuff but that that
that's not really me
like I'm I'm a UFC guy so you know discuss with the UFC and they're like hey
well you know we can
throw you on contenders and uh I'm like let's do it and it was a couple months
later so I uh now I'm
like it's on like let's get it rolling I'm gonna fight these contenders fights
uh I fight my first
fight um choke the guy out in a minute Dan's like let's do another fight I'm
like perfect let's do it
like that's great um so then I I fight at the uh the last week of contender
series and it's actually
a crazy story so this is gonna make me seem like a real dummy but um my gym is
like 200 yards away
from where I live and uh there's a main road that you have to cross to get to
it it's probably like
a 40 45 mile an hour speed limit but it's not it's not super busy but it's a
little busy and so I used
to you know what a one wheel is so I used to ride my one wheel like to and from
practice and uh I would
just do this all the time and so I'm riding back from training session once and
uh I've got so I'm
barefoot I've got like a yeti bottle I've got my phone and wallet and like my
flip-flops in my hand
and I've got no shirt on and I'm just like it takes like 25 seconds so I'm just
like zoom zoom
and uh I'm going I'm going on this road and my my buddy pulls behind me he's
leaving practice too
and then I have another car behind me and I'm like oh frick like I better pick
I don't want to make
these people wait I better pick it up and normally I'm pretty safe on this
thing like I don't really
go crazy but I so you lean forward to go faster so I'm leaning forward and I
catch the nose
on the tip of the nose on the asphalt and I slam into the ground and roll and
uh my yeti I have
like a 64 ounce yeti it's flying in the air my shoes while everything's flying
in the air and I
hit and rolled and I just was like get off the road you're gonna get hit by a
car so I popped up
grabbed my stuff and got off the road and my buddy's sitting there in his car
and he's like
and I was like oh I just jumped in the car with him and uh I'm like take me
home bro and he just
pulls into my driveway and uh he's like you're right and I'm like oh yeah I'm
good like my
shoulder hurts a little bit but I'm good and I checked on my app I was going 23
miles an hour
oh Jesus I was flying and uh then you know I was like I'll be fine like I kind
of hurt my shoulder
hurts a little bit and then four hours later I couldn't move my arm I was like
I could get up to
like here and that was it and so then I go get x-ray MRI and I cracked my
collarbone and I had
like a separation in my uh SC joint oh Jesus and uh I was like this was 10 days
before I was supposed
to fight my second contenders fight and I was like dude what am I gonna do like
this is terrible and so
I go to the athletic trainer at Penn State he's like a magician he's amazing he's
worked with the
wrestling team for 30 years and he does a lot of like kind of he's more like
eastern philosophy guy
so we're moving energy through it and doing a few different things and um I
started to feel a little
better feel a little better and I'm about to fly out to to Vegas like the next
day and I'm like well
it's the day before I'm about to the two days before I'm about to fly out I'm
like okay if I wake up
tomorrow and I don't feel significantly better like I'm gonna have to pull out
of this fight
and so I woke up the next day and I was like all right it feels okay it feels
it felt better so I
hit pads and like did a couple things and uh and I was like all right whatever
let's just do it so
let's freaking go into the fight and uh uh I ended up I knocked that dude down
hit him in a triangle
choke him out win the fight and whatever less than a minute and I'm like fired
up and I'm like let's go
let's do it again get me in there again December I tell tell Dana and Hunter
and they're like done
and uh so then everybody's like he's fine December and I got back home and I
was like
maybe we held off a little bit so uh then we we pushed my next fight till March
but I don't ride
the one moral of the story I don't ride the one wheel anymore yeah fuck those
things yeah Jamie broke
his ass bone oh one of them hoverboards oh yeah yeah similar so I don't I don't
do that anymore but