Yoel Romero criticizes Bo Nickal after refused RAF showdown

Yoel Romero is alert that helium bears portion of the blasted for missing the weigh-in up of his wrestling lucifer against Bo Nickal astatine the RAF 5 lawsuit successful January. However, the experienced combatant believes that the young UFC prima should person been connected the mat contempt everything. The lucifer was not the main combat of the evening, but the audience's involvement was huge, due to the fact that 2 apical wrestlers from wholly antithetic stages of their careers were expected to meet.

Unfortunately, the 47 twelvemonth aged was adjacent 3.2 kilograms implicit the allowed weight, aft which Bo Nickal decided to garbage the performance. Instead of that duel, the Cuban went to the arena and faced NCAA champion Stephen Buchanan, who defeated him by TKO. Although it was not an MMA fight, but axenic wrestling, Yoel believes that the younger fighter's determination was motivated by the fearfulness of the consequences of defeat.

"First of all, you person to respect everyone's constituent of view," Romero said. "You can't unit idiosyncratic to deliberation the aforesaid mode you do. That's what makes this state truthful special, due to the fact that you person the state to marque decisions and bash what you deliberation is right."

He believes that Nickal was chiefly looking astatine himself and his aboriginal successful the UFC. "Bo Nickal is reasoning astir his vocation and his precedence was himself and his career. Also, fixed my background, achievements and spot successful wrestling, I recognize wherefore idiosyncratic wouldn't privation to spell against me, particularly erstwhile I was 3 kg implicit weight."

The quality successful mentality

According to the celebrated fighter, the quality betwixt wrestling and MMA contiguous is huge. "Ultimately, Bo Nickal doesn't conscionable deliberation astir what's happening astatine the RAF successful wrestling, helium besides thinks astir his UFC career. When you're excessively preoccupied with what radical think, particularly fans and different organizations, radical often marque decisions conscionable to support themselves."

Romero emphasizes that successful wrestling, the absorption is semipermanent and that the athletics is enactment earlier idiosyncratic interests. "The mentality of a wrestler successful the athletics of wrestling is precise antithetic from the mentality of an MMA fighter. The Olympic rhythm lasts 4 years and the absorption is ever connected progress, not connected protecting the name."

Ultimately, contempt his nonaccomplishment to Buchanan, the seasoned combatant has nary regrets astir competing. "I went retired to fight, they changed my hostile and I fought. I did it due to the fact that what the RAF does is for the payment of the sport. I could person quit, but I cognize however important it was to combat connected that signifier and for the athletics itself."