Jimmy Flick (Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
UFC Flyweight Jimmy “The Brick” Flick is coming off a tough-luck loss in his most recent fight against Nathan Maness. Flick sat down with The Fight Analyst to tell RG that he fought with numerous injuries mid-fight, ultimately leading to his demise.
“Thank goodness I have no surgery. I have a light tear in my MCL and a partial tear in a word that I can’t pronounce. I was supposed to get stem cell injections, they suggested they wanted me to do more physical therapy and wear a knee brace instead of stem cell injections, so that pushed recovery a little longer.
Now we are in our second part of physical therapy and I got about three weeks left of that, then hopefully I’ll be cleared to go back to training.”
While Flick did end up losing the fight, he was able to go the distance against a potent finisher in the flyweight division. This was the first time that Flick went to a decision win or lose in his UFC career. It shows his toughness the way he battled through a ligament tear and a damaged rib.
“I thought my rib was broken in round two when he kicked me in the body. That is when I really slowed down in round 2. I planned on picking up the pace more because that was Nate’s first time getting out of the first round at 125.
With Flick now on the sidelines due to injury for the first time in his career, he’s just looking to get healthy as quickly as possible to make a quick return before the year’s end. He has been eying the last fight card of the year on December 14th in Tampa Bay, Florida but he is willing to take a short-notice fight or anything that the UFC has for him. Ultimately, right now since he isn’t cleared to fight, he can’t negotiate a fight but Flick has someone he’s been eying to fight which would be a big fight for Oklahoma fans.
“I will throw this out there, I know he didn’t get signed by the UFC. I would love the Nick Piccininni. I probably can’t pronounce his name right, no disrespect to Nick or anything like that. The thing is Nick is an OSU wrestler, I grew up my whole life wrestling in Oklahoma.
Unfortunately, I messed up my life at a young age and I wasn’t able to pursue my career as an actual collegiate wrestler and I found Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at 17 and it took over from there. So, a high-class wrestler like that stepped up on 10 days notice, fought a guy like Duffy, and he got the decision.
I know it was a split, I think yes, it could have gone either way. I do agree with Dana giving them a rematch, but I think if they do rematch and he actually has a fight camp, I think he will get the unanimous decision win. I don’t know if he can find the submission over Duffy, he was scrappy. What I am saying is, I would love to fight an All-American wrestler vs. an All-American Jiu-Jitsu guy. Nick Piccininni, I ain’t got no disrespect for you, I’ll be watching you. If you do make it to the UFC, throw my name out there. I think it would be a great match and Oklahoma will love it.”
Jimmy Flick will be coming into his second fight in his new four-fight contract with UFC and he has plans on getting one more win this season before he gets two more next year so that he can end his contract on a high note in hopes of getting resigned and keep pushing toward the flyweight title.
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