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Schaub takes White to task for dragging Ngannou: ‘When you try to lead by fear, it doesn’t work’

Clearly, Brendan Schaub’s beef with UFC president Dana White didn’t begin with White’s recent comments about Francis Ngannou’s “ego” – following the Frenchman’s terrible bout against Derrick Lewis at UFC 226. Schaub, himself a former UFC heavyweight, and White have been picking at each other for days now, in a public spat that started over some comments on Israel Adesanya’s Instagram page.

The initial social media beef came to a bit of an abrupt halt, after Schaub threatened to expose details of White’s personal life, claiming that the two men had shared a common sexual partner and were “Eskimo brothers.