As the longtime head coach of American Top Team, Mike Brown has been around his share of special fighters. But perhaps nobody has reached the level of hype so early in his career as UFC super prospect Bo Nickal.
“I’ve never seen it, but I also know he’s a super special guy,” Brown told MMA Junkie. “He’s a super special athlete, and people know that. He’s performing. He’s executing and performing like you’d expect from a guy like him. So people realize this guy’s ceiling might be off the charts. If you understand the levels there are to wrestling and how tough college wrestling is and the level he was in (that) world, it’s above special. There’s not a lot of guys like this.”
Nickal, 26, is three years removed from a decorated collegiate wrestling career at Penn State University, where he was a three-time NCAA Division I national champion and 2019 Dan Hodge Trophy winner as the nation’s most outstanding wrestler in his final year.
