Ex-UFC heavyweight said he’d knock Ilia Topuria out… ‘I’d uppercut him like Francis Ngannou did to Alistair Overeem’

Brendan Schaub said he could knock Ilia Topuria out

Brendan Schaub rates Ilia Topuria extremely highly.

But in a hypothetical scenario in which they’d meet inside the cage, the American is adamant he’d be the one coming out on top.

‘Big Brown’ even went as far as to compare the finish to that of one of the most brutal the sport of MMA has ever seen.

In an episode of The Fighter and the Kid, from March, he said: “What does he walk around at 160-170lbs-ish? I’d beat the s— out of him.

“I’d uppercut him like Francis Ngannou did to Alistair Overeem.”

Alistair Overeem reveals the toughest fight of his career and it’s not Francis Ngannou

It’s fair to say Overeem suffered a horrendous defeat at the hands of Ngannou.

However, the Dutchman doesn’t believe ‘The Predator’ pushed him to his limits as much as another MMA star did.

Interestingly, Overeem named the toughest fight of his career.