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Schaub: Junior dos Santos was ‘scared to get hit’ by Francis Ngannou

Many expected UFC Minneapolis’ headliner between heavy hitters Junior dos Santos and Francis Ngannou to not go the distance. True enough, the fight lasted a little over a minute, with “The Predator” winning by TKO.

Retired UFC heavyweight turned stand-up comedian and podcast commentator Brendan Schaub expected the same thing, as he shared during the most recent episode of his “Below the Belt” podcast on Showtime.

“Told you guys, first-round TKO,” Schaub said (transcript by BJPenn.com). “I didn’t think he was gonna knock him out, but I thought he’d wobble him and finish him with punches on the ground.