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The Clinch

UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen

27 APR 2013 / Newark, New Jersey, USA

Bout 3 of 11 / Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Roy Nelson vs Cheick Kongo

No photograph on file Roy Nelson “Big Country”

5-5-0 entering this bout

Age 36 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Won

Cheick Kongo, photograph by U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dan T. Le (Released) Cheick Kongo

11-5-1 entering this bout

Age 37 · 6′4″193 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
2/5
R1
4/6

Technical Knockout Punch to Head At Distance Round 1 · 2:03

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Roy Nelson Enters 1-2-0 against GRAPPLING
Cheick Kongo Enters 2-1-0 against HYBRID

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Roy Nelson    Cheick Kongo

Bout totals

2
Sig. strikes
4
3
Total strikes
8
2
To the head
0
0
To the body
2
0
To the legs
2
1
At distance
2
0
In the clinch
2
1
On the ground
0
0
Takedowns
0
1
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
0
1:11
Control time
0:00

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Roy Nelson 2/5 3/6 2/4 0/1 0/0 1/2 0/2 1/1 0/0 1 1:11
Cheick Kongo 4/6 8/10 0/2 2/2 2/2 2/4 2/2 0/0 0/0 0 0:00

Who said so

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Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight No UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight No UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Kevin Mulhall UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Kevin Mulhall UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Punch to Head At Distance UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Punch to Head At Distance UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 1 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 1 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 2:03 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 2:03 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method KO/TKO UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method KO/TKO UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Heavyweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Heavyweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

Photographs on this page

  • Cheick Kongo - U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dan T. Le (Released), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.