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Events · UFC Freedom 250 · Bo Nickal vs Kyle Daukaus
Red corner BoNickalAmerican Top Team Happy Valley · State College, Pennsylvania
VSSettled
Blue corner KyleDaukausMartinez BJJ · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Middleweight3 rounds15 Jun 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than Daukaus.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
9-1
Record
17-5
−3 yr30
Age
33
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
76″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
6
UFC bouts
+39
+5%4/580% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
American Top Team Happy Valley
Gym
Martinez BJJ
State College, Pennsylvania
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Bo Nickal
73.1% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 43%
Vs the market−0.2pp
Market had our pick at73%
The fight
Bo Nickal
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock4:34
Called it We called Bo Nickal at 73.1% and Bo Nickal won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:34 of action⚡ 1 KD NickalEnded 4:34
Bo Nickal16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Kyle Daukaus2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
16 of 24
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:14
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Bo Nickal

Round
1
Clock
4:34
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Bo Nickal

3.10takedowns / 15 min
3.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.08 / 15m
5.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.32 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
25%
2.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.10 / 15m

Kyle Daukaus

2.08takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Bo NickalKyle DaukausPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Bo Nickal vs Kyle Daukaus — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Bo Nickal and Kyle Daukaus from Jun 01 to Jun 15, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Bo Nickal moves from 72% to 74% and Kyle Daukaus from 28% to 26%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%Jun 1Jun 5Jun 8Jun 11Jun 15▲ we flagged Bo Nickal (HIGH) here74%26%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Bo Nickal's implied chance moved up from 72% to 74% (+2.0pp).

Our published call had Bo Nickal at 73.1%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 74.5% — our number sat 1.4pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Bo Nickal — sportsbook consensus75.3%72.4%77.0%74.5%−0.7pp
Kyle Daukaus — sportsbook consensus24.7%23.1%27.6%25.5%+0.7pp
Bo Nickal — Polymarket72.5%72.5%75.5%74.5%+2.0pp
Kyle Daukaus — Polymarket27.5%24.5%27.5%25.5%−2.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,160 snapshots on file · window Jun 01 17:20Jun 15 01:15Z · last capture Jun 15, 01:15Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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