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History · 2009 · UFC 97: Redemption · Cheick Kongo vs Antoni Hardonk
From the tape · 18 Apr 2009

Cheick Kongo vs Antoni Hardonk

UFC 97: Redemption · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Cheick Kongo beat Antoni Hardonk

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
2:29
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
AH
Blue corner AntoniHardonkDynamix MMA · Weesp, North Holland
Heavyweight3 rounds18 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Hardonk’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
27-10-2
Record
8-6
33
Age
33
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
+4″82″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+28
UFC bouts
6
4/667% of wins
Finishes
+33%4/4100% of wins
Kongo Smashin' Club
Gym
Dynamix MMA
Paris
From
Weesp, North Holland
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Cheick Kongo36 sig landed
HEAD33%12 of 27BODY11%4 of 4LEGS56%20 of 24
Antoni Hardonk8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 10BODY25%2 of 3LEGS62%5 of 5
36 of 55
Sig.
strikes
8 of 18
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:52
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 13Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 22:29 of actionEnded 2:29
Cheick Kongo17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 24BODY29%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Antoni Hardonk1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:08
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

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
2
Clock
2:29
Method
KO/TKO

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
0.00 / 15m
4.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
56%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Antoni Hardonk

0.00takedowns / 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

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Cheick Kongo→ no move
open 72.4%close 72.9%
Antoni Hardonk→ no move
open 27.6%close 27.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Cheick Kongo opened at 72.4% and closed at 72.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp shift across the whole build-up. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Cheick Kongo-315-31072.4%72.9%+0.5pp
Antoni Hardonk24525527.6%27.1%−0.5pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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