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Cheick Kongo
27-10-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Cheick Kongo’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record27-10-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age51
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 11 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 4 decision. Top 7% of Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.28 significant strikes a minute and connects with 56% of his significant strikes.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

Nicknamepending
NationalityFrance
HometownParis
Fighting out ofKongo Smashin' Club
Height6' 4"
Reach82.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age51
Date of birthMay 17, 1975
Weight240 lbs.
Pro record27-10-2
Finish split11 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Cheick Kongo’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.33
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min1.28
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.30
Takedown accuracy56%
Takedown defence52%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Heavyweight.
Striking74
Defence83
Grappling / TD50
Cardio79
Chin48
Fight IQ67

Strike zones

Strike zones

Cheick Kongo

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD44.0%ACC 43%BODY26.7%ACC 86%LEGS29.3%ACC 77%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.3% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +14.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
44.0% acc 43%−22.8 vs field
BODY
26.7% acc 86%+8.2 vs field
LEGS
29.3% acc 77%+14.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 37%CLINCH 38%GROUND 25%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

18 UFC fights · 574 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Cheick Kongo

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

2.30takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.30 takedowns per 15 minutes at 56% completion — +5pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS67
2.30 / 15m−0.09 vs field
ATTEMPTS51
4.11 / 15m−0.91 vs field
ACCURACY68
56%+5pp vs field
SUB ATT14
0.20 / 15m−1.45 vs field

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.

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.

Ranked in Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 27-10-2. In the UFC: 11-6-1. Cheick Kongo’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

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