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History · 2012 · UFC 149: Faber vs Barao · Cheick Kongo vs Shawn Jordan
From the tape · 21 Jul 2012

Cheick Kongo vs Shawn Jordan

UFC 149: Faber vs Barao · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Result

Cheick Kongo beat Shawn Jordan

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
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
SJ
Blue corner ShawnJordan“The Savage”American Top Team · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Heavyweight3 rounds21 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Carries 24 points more takedown defence than Kongo.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Jordan.
27-10-2
Record
19-8
37
Age
−10 yr27
+4″6' 4"
Height
6' 0"
+7″82″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1516
UFC bouts
1
7/1070% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Kongo Smashin' Club
Gym
American Top Team
Paris
From
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Cheick Kongo10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 11BODY50%5 of 5LEGS30%3 of 3
Shawn Jordan5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%5 of 5
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:00
Control
2:18
Distance 2Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kongo firstPeter Adamcik10–9Richard Bertrand10–9Jeff Blatnick10–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cheick Kongo14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 10BODY57%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Shawn Jordan4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 13BODY75%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 18
Sig.
strikes
4 of 16
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:05
Control
2:14
Distance 5Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kongo firstPeter Adamcik10–9Richard Bertrand10–9Jeff Blatnick10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cheick Kongo14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 10BODY57%8 of 8LEGS7%1 of 1
Shawn Jordan6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
14 of 19
Sig.
strikes
6 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:58
Control
1:25
Distance 5Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kongo firstPeter Adamcik10–9Richard Bertrand10–9Jeff Blatnick10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Cheick KongoShawn Jordan
Official totals — Cheick Kongo first
JudgeTotal
Peter Adamcik30–27
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide30–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 6 scored, Cheick Kongo first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kongo · 90%

10 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

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
1.97 / 15m
4.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.18 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
38%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Shawn Jordan

1.97takedowns / 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↓ −12.5pp
open 65.3%close 52.8%
Shawn Jordan↑ +12.5pp
open 34.7%close 47.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cheick Kongo opened at 65.3% and closed at 52.8% (−12.5pp), with Shawn Jordan moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. 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-230-12065.3%52.8%−12.5pp
Shawn Jordan17010534.7%47.2%+12.5pp
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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