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Nickal claims to have been provided a short-notice reserving
towards Robert
Whittaker at UFC Saudi Arabia, which he couldn’t settle for attributable to
some unlucky circumstances.
Whittaker was initially scheduled to battle Khamzat
Chimaev in the primary occasion at
UFC on ABC 6 on Saturday. Nevertheless, Chimaev pulled out of the
battle 9 days earlier than the occasion attributable to well being considerations. Chimaev
will now get replaced on brief discover by Ikram
Aliskerov.
Whereas the battle has now been finalized, Nickal revealed that he was
additionally on the checklist of potential contenders to switch Chimaev. Nickal
claims to have obtained a name to step up for UFC Saudi Arabia,
which he couldn’t reply as he didn’t have service. After three
days within the mountains of Montana with no community sign, Nickal
returned to a number of messages requesting callbacks. Nevertheless, by
then it was too late, because the UFC had already finalized the brand new essential
occasion for Saudi Arabia. In addition to, Nickal wasn’t too eager on
touring to Saudi Arabia to battle.
“I did get a name. Sadly, I acquired a name once I was within the
mountains of Montana and I didn’t get again to cell service for
three days,” Nickal stated on his YouTube channel. “So, I got here again
into cell service to a couple textual content messages saying, ‘Name me again,
name me again, name me again,’ and it was too late. And I’m not gonna
like disclose numbers, however they have been up there. Nevertheless it was simply too
late. I couldn’t even actually take into account it as a result of that they had already
form of figured every part out, the best way they have been gonna do it,
as a result of I used to be gone… Truthfully, I don’t actually wanna go to Saudi
Arabia and battle, like that’s freaking far as crap.”
Whereas Nickal was leaning towards Whittaker towards Chimaev, he
believes Aliskerov has a stylistic benefit towards the previous
middleweight champion.
“I used to be [favoring Whittaker against Chimaev] too given the situation
and stuff,” Nickal stated. “However I don’t know man, relies upon of how
prepared he [Aliskerov] is and stuff. I simply assume that style-wise
Ikram will most likely win.”
Aliskerov’s lone profession loss got here towards Khamzat
Chimaev through first spherical KO in 2019. Aliskerov has completed 9
of his 15 profession wins, which features a back-to-back first spherical
stoppages to start his UFC tenure.
In the meantime, Nickal is coming off a second-round submission win over
Cody
Brundage at UFC 300 in April, the one time he went past the
opening body in professional profession.
