Well dirty little secret about Bo, despite being a virtuoso (probably the greatest ever) at hunting big moves, a lot of his matches were just him waiting for reshots. He didn't wrestle as hard guys like Retherford Nolf Taylor....
I don't think the internal shenanigan support the idea that they told Nickal to lose at all. Getting into weird hypotheticals but if they could just tell him to lose why didn't they let him medal the year before anyway...