It also spared him a merciless beating from ex-UFC champ Francis Ngannou.
”I think against Francis, he would not [stand] much of a chance,” retired MMA and kickboxing veteran, Alistair Overeem, told Ariel Helwani. “Just basically because he’s missing the wrestling and the submissions. He’s just not training that. It takes years to develop that, and it shouldn’t be underestimated, and I think that he and his team have made a wise choice to kind of stay out of MMA, because you’re just not gonna catch up with those years of experience just like that in a training camp. Francis Ngannou is totally a no-go area. Stay away from that. Francis is clever. He’s just going to win the fight — and it would not even be a difficult fight.”