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Shaq laughs as Ngannou lifts him off the ground.

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What happened when the hardest-hitting athlete in UFC history, Francis Ngannou, met one of the tallest and heaviest NBA players of all time in Shaquille O’Neal?

Well, Ngannou felt the natural thing to do would be to lift 7-foot-1-inch tall, 325-pound Shaq off the floor, then walk around with him like it was no big deal.

Ngannou marveled at how O’Neal felt like he had little to no body fat, and said it was no wonder he was able to glide across the court.

O’Neal, meanwhile, said it was the first time anybody had ever been able to pick him up.

Watch it all unfold below.

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This is Francis Ngannou, a terrifyingly powerful and intimidating athlete who competes in the UFC’s heavyweight division.

And this is Shaquille O’Neal, the former four-time NBA champ who is so big at 7-foot-1-inch tall and 325-pounds, that he can palm a basketball.

Ngannou is the hardest-hitting fighter in UFC history. He once told Insider that the source of his strength is from being forced to work in a mine as a child. He grew up in poverty in Batie, a small town in Cameroon, west Africa, and worked in a sand mine from the age of 10.

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