Chael Sonnen shouldn’t be pleased with Bo Nickal’s efficiency at UFC 309.

Nickal (7-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) remained unbeaten when he outstruck Paul Craig (17-9-1 MMA, 9-9-1 UFC) in Saturday’s principal card at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. Regardless of sweeping the scorecards, Nickal was met with boos by the group and a chant of “overrated.”

Sonnen thinks Nickal regarded composed however was irked with how little exercise happened within the struggle. He wasn’t a fan of his recreation plan, by which Nickal didn’t try a single takedown.

“My downside with it and my gripe is that you’ve a four-time world champion. … Doesn’t do one rattling little bit of wrestling as a result of any person obtained a maintain of him,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel. “One among his trainers or his coaching companions sat him down and mentioned, ‘You’re not able to go to the bottom with the man.’ Properly how the F would we all know? How within the F we might know that now?”

Nickal referred to as his efficiency “picture-perfect,” alluding to a profitable recreation plan. Sonnen places the duty on Nickal’s nook for not encouraging him to play to his strengths, and pointed to Georges St-Pierre for example of somebody who by no means strayed away from his recreation plan.

“You don’t take a look at your opponent’s recreation to resolve your technique,” Sonnen mentioned. “That’s nothing that Bo has ever completed. He didn’t present Gabe Dean that respect. He didn’t present Myles Martin that respect. He didn’t present David Taylor that respect. And he refuses to take down. A four-time world champion refuses to make use of one little bit of wrestling in opposition to a man that’s by no means had a wrestling match. That’s due to any person in his trusted inside circle.”