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The Clinch

UFC 99: The Comeback

13 JUN 2009 / Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Co-main / Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Cain Velasquez vs Cheick Kongo

Cain Velasquez, photograph by The Doppelganger (talk) (Adam Etheridge) Cain Velasquez

5-0-0 entering this bout

Age 26 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Won

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

7-2-0 entering this bout

Age 34 · 6′4″193 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
8/13
R1
5/7
12/18
R2
9/14
9/22
R3
7/13

Decision (Unanimous) Round 3 · 5:00 Referee Dan Miragliotta

The cards

Judge Cain Velasquez Cheick Kongo
Doug Crosby 30 27
Keith Hughes 30 27
Chris Watts 30 27

Totals for the bout. No source on file publishes a round-by-round card.

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.
Cain Velasquez Enters 1-0-0 against GRAPPLING
Cheick Kongo Enters 2-1-0 against GRAPPLING

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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Cain Velasquez    Cheick Kongo

Bout totals

29
Sig. strikes
21
261
Total strikes
42
23
To the head
11
6
To the body
8
0
To the legs
2
2
At distance
8
1
In the clinch
9
26
On the ground
4
7
Takedowns
1
0
Knockdowns
0
2
Sub. attempts
0
12:58
Control time
0:51

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 Cain Velasquez 8/13 50/66 8/13 0/0 0/0 0/4 0/0 8/9 4/4 0 4:29
Cheick Kongo 5/7 14/16 4/6 1/1 0/0 3/4 1/1 1/2 0/0 0 0:14
R2 Cain Velasquez 12/18 94/105 7/12 5/6 0/0 2/7 0/0 10/11 2/3 0 4:13
Cheick Kongo 9/14 14/19 4/9 3/3 2/2 3/7 3/3 3/4 0/0 0 0:25
R3 Cain Velasquez 9/22 117/149 8/21 1/1 0/0 0/1 1/2 8/19 1/3 0 4:16
Cheick Kongo 7/13 14/21 3/9 4/4 0/0 2/6 5/7 0/0 1/3 0 0:12

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 Dan Miragliotta UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Dan Miragliotta UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Doug Crosby 27 - 30. Keith Hughes 27 - 30. Chris Watts 27 - 30. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Doug Crosby 27 - 30. Keith Hughes 27 - 30. Chris Watts 27 - 30. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Unanimous 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

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