Kicking things off for the pay-per-view section of UFC 300 is Cody Brundage versus Bo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nickal in a middleweight bout. Nickal enters the octagon as the heavy favourite even<\/p>\n\n\n\n
though he gives up quite a bit in terms of experience to Brundage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Nickal, despite being relatively new to the MMA game, many experts are raising<\/p>\n\n\n\n
their expectations for the 28-year-old saying it will be a matter of when and not if he<\/p>\n\n\n\n
becomes a UFC middleweight champion. The company sees the former amateur<\/p>\n\n\n\n
wrestler as someone they can push to the masses, hence the opportunity to fight on the<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pay-per-view portion of such a stacked card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bo Nickal (-2300)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The three-time NCAA champion out Penn State made his MMA debut in June 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n where he knocked out his opponent in just 33 seconds. Bo Nickal was selected to<\/p>\n\n\n\n compete on a Dana White Contender Series card in both August and September of<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022 where he picked up wins in less than 63 seconds each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is excellent on the mat and has earned two more wins under the UFC banner since<\/p>\n\n\n\n then, making him 5-0. Each of his fights have ended in the first round thanks to his<\/p>\n\n\n\n excellent abilities on the mat but his striking has gotten pundits talking as he\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n developed that area of his game quite quickly. His first MMA fight and his most recent<\/p>\n\n\n\n contest have finished via KO and TKO thanks to his striking ability. Will UFC 300 be a<\/p>\n\n\n\n platform for Nickal to stake his claim or will he be exposed as a fighter who needs a bit<\/p>\n\n\n\n more time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cody Brundage (+1100)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With a 10-5-0 MMA record, Cody Brundage is an even 4-4 under the UFC banner. He\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n riding a two-fight win streak which includes a first-round knockout win over Zachary<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reese at the beginning of December. The key for Brundage will be to stay on his feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, Nickal has developed his striking ability over a short period of time but it\u2019s better for<\/p>\n\n\n\n the veteran to roll the dice on his feet than trying to double-leg a NCAA champion who<\/p>\n\n\n\n racked up 103 consecutive victories for the Nittany Lions. Unfortunately for Brundage,<\/p>\n\n\n\n it\u2019s kind of a lose-lose situation for the 29-year-old. If he wins, cynics will say that he<\/p>\n\n\n\n beat an inexperienced fighter, but should he lose, well then he\u2019s dropping a<\/p>\n\n\n\n pay-per-view contest to a newbie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the latest UFC 300 odds, visit BetOnline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kicking things off for the pay-per-view section of UFC 300 is Cody Brundage versus Bo Nickal in a middleweight bout….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[195,194],"class_list":["post-24869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mma","tag-mma","tag-ufc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24871,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions\/24871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}