Cheick Kongo
81″ reach · +6.58% reach advantage · 87th percentile
31–12
Cheick Kongo has a reach of 81″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +6.58%, long for heavyweight MMA and the 87th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Cheick Kongo — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-31
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2025-12-31. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 140 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Ryan Bader | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | Sergei Kharitonov | Submission | 2 |
| 2020 | L | Timothy Johnson | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | N | Ryan Bader | — | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Vitaly Minakov | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Timothy Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Javy Ayala | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Augusto Sakai | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Oli Thompson | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Tony Johnson | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Vinicius Queiroz | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Alexander Volkov | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Muhammed Lawal | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Lavar Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Eric Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Vitaly Minakov | Decision | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Peter Graham | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Mark Godbeer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Roy Nelson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Shawn Jordan | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Mark Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Matt Mitrione | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Pat Barry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | D | Travis Browne | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Paul Buentello | Submission | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Frank Mir | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Cain Velasquez | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Antoni Hardonk | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Mostapha al-Turk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Dan Evensen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Heath Herring | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Mirko Cro Cop | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Assuério Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Carmelo Marrero | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Christian Wellisch | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Gilbert Aldana | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Dave Dalgliesh | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Gabor Nemeth | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Dusko Basrak | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Mladen Brestovac | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Tihamer Brunner | KO/TKO | — |
| 2005 | L | Glaube Feitosa | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Gilbert Yvel | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Joop Kasteel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Sinisa Andrijasevic | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Dave Vader | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Hans Nijman | Submission | 2 |
| 2002 | D | Michael Knaap | Draw | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Rodney Faverus | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Dave van der Veen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | André Tete | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Marcin Rozalski | KO/TKO | 3 |
35 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Cheick Kongo — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-31
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.58%
81″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 85th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 68th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 26 of 51 dated bouts | |
| Country | France |
Record
MMA record
31–12
45 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 13th percentile
The career, bout by bout
52 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
2001–2022
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
52
51 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Cheick Kongo competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 31 | 12 | 15 |
| Kickboxing | 21 | 2 | 12 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Soa Palelei+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Ben Rothwell+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Jake Hager+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Matt Skelton+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Bob Sapp+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Juan Espino+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Johnny Walker+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Ovince Saint Preux+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Cheick Kongo's record?
- 31–12 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 52 bouts individually.
- How many of Cheick Kongo's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 52. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Kongo sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA26 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Cheick Kongo vs Ryan BaderA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2019 Longest unbeaten runsCheick Kongo went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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