Bo Nickal should get some slack, says one MMA icon following the stunning events of UFC Des Moines this past Saturday.

The former two-division ONE Championship titleholder shocked Bo Nickal on Saturday night, knocking out the MMA super-prospect with a barrage of second-round strikes in UFC Des Moines' middleweight co-main event at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.

Aljamain Sterling thinks Bo Nickal is too small for the UFC middleweight division. Nickal (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) suffered his first career loss when he was stopped by Reinier de Ridder in Saturday's UFC on ESPN 67 co-main event at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines,