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Events · UFC 61: Bitter Rivals · Cheick Kongo vs Gilbert Aldana
From the tape · 8 Jul 2006

Cheick Kongo vs Gilbert Aldana

UFC 61: Bitter Rivals · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Cheick Kongo beat Gilbert Aldana

Method
TKO - Doctor's Stoppage
Round
1 of 3
Clock
4:13
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

CK
Red corner CheickKongoKongo Smashin' Club · Paris
VSOn the tape
GA
Blue corner GilbertAldana“El Peligro”Brausa Academy · Chandler, Arizona
Heavyweight3 rounds8 Jul 2006
27-10-2
Record
6-2
31
Age
−3 yr28
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kongo Smashin' Club
Gym
Brausa Academy
Paris
From
Chandler, Arizona
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:13 of actionEnded 4:13
Cheick Kongo24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 19BODY29%7 of 7LEGS8%2 of 2
Gilbert Aldana6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 7BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 28
Sig.
strikes
6 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:30
Control
2:54
Distance 1Clinch 20Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 6

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Cheick Kongo

Round
1
Clock
4:13
Method
TKO - Doctor's Stoppage

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Yves Lavigne.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Cheick Kongo

2.30takedowns / 15 min
2.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.57 / 15m
4.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.42 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
40%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Gilbert Aldana

2.57takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

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Cheick Kongo vs Gilbert Aldana.

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