Dricus Du Plessis wishes Bo Nickal well at the top
“I’m just saying, it was satisfying to watch because you can’t just disrespect the people who’ve done what you wish you could do and I think for this, he had this aura of ‘I am champion,” Dricus Du Plessis added about Nickal. “Nobody can wrestle me. I can out-wrestle anybody’ and he was talking about wrestling, wrestling, wrestling. This is not wrestling. This is fighting and, in my honest opinion, that knee, it was a proper knee, Bo Nickal gave up. Bo Nickal was broken mentally. That’s why he took a knee. He wasn’t dropped by the knee. The knee caught him and it was a good knee. But if you’re getting downed by knees like that, good luck at the top because the shots are a lot harder.”
Dricus Du Plessis also believes Reinier de Ridder exposed the holes in Bo Nickal’s game. Du Plessis believes the fight proved that Nickal has terrible striking defense, while his grappling also needs a lot of work. Instead, Du Plessis believes all Nickal has is great wrestling, but he needs to improve his striking and grappling.
As for Dricus Du Plessis, he doesn’t have his next fight booked. But, he is rumored to face Khamzat Chimaev in a defense of his middleweight title.
