Khabib Nurmagomedov believes Brock Lesnar would need something of a miracle to defeat teammate Daniel Cormier should their planned heavyweight title fight come together early next year.

Following Cormier’s (21-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) title-winning knockout of Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 in July, Lesnar (5-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) entered the octagon for a chaotic face-to-face with the heavyweight and light heavyweight champion. The pair is expected to fight early next year once Lesnar goes through his required drug-testing window with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

What would happen when Cormier and Lesnar do step in the cage, though? UFC lightweight champ Nurmagomedov (26-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC), who is a friend and longtime training partner of “DC” at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., said he doesn’t see how Lesnar wins the fight.

“If you talk about Brock Lesnar about striking or wrestling – how can he beat ‘DC’?” Nurmagomedov said at a recent fan Q&A in a Calgary, Alberta, Canada. “I don’t understand this. ‘DC’ is very tough guy. I think 99 percent ‘DC’ can beat him. Only one percent (Lesnar can win). This is my opinion.”

The biggest road block to a Cormier vs. Lesnar fight appears to be whether Lesnar can get through the next five-plus months of drug testing without any incidents. He failed multiple drug tests around the time of his most recent MMA fight against Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in July 2016, and Cormier said he would not take the fight unless he knows without question that Lesnar is clean.

“First of all, he can come back, be clean, work with USADA a little bit,” Nurmagomedov said. “USADA come to my house more than 20 times. I don’t know how many times USADA comes to his house.”

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