Bo Nickal expects to have his way with Tresean Gore

Bo Nickal has little question that he’ll take Tresean Gore to his world at UFC 290.

Nickal (4-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) meets Gore (4-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) on the pay-per-view important card opener July 8 at T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.

Nickal has lived as much as his potential up to now with two fast submissions on Dana White’s Contender Sequence, adopted by a profitable UFC debut against Jamie Pickett. The three-time Division I nationwide wrestling champion expects to don’t have any points getting Gore to the mat, too.

“He in all probability clearly hopes to maintain it standing, hopes to have the ability to keep on his ft and sort of play to his strengths,” Nickal stated in an interview with Karyn Bryant. “However the best way I see it, I don’t actually really feel like there’s any manner he might cease me from taking him down. Even when he defends one, I’m nonetheless simply gonna preserve coming at him. I’m able to go for quarter-hour. However realistically I feel that I’ll get him on the bottom, whether or not I knock him down or whether or not I take him down.

“As soon as I get him on the bottom as soon as, he’s not getting again up. That’s for sure. I not solely can maintain these MMA guys down, I can maintain the very best wrestlers on this planet down – guys which were wrestling their entire life, 20-plus years. That’s what I did in faculty. That’s what I nonetheless can do to at the present time. So, I don’t know the way a man that’s gonna prepare wrestling for eight weeks or sort of part-time prepare wrestling within the MMA sense, I don’t know what he’s going to have the ability to do to cease me.”

All 4 of Nickal’s skilled wins have come within the first spherical, and he sees issues getting into comparable vogue in opposition to Gore. A participant on “The Final Fighter 29,” Gore picked up his first octagon win when he submitted Josh Fremd with a guillotine choke final October.

“I don’t wish to guess actual predictions for the struggle as a result of I’m prepared to regulate and alter plan and struggle nevertheless I have to win and get the end,” Nickal stated. “But when I’ve to do a prediction, I feel that I’ll in all probability get him on the bottom first spherical and both TKO him or sub him.”

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