UFC 87: Cheick Kongo vs. Dan Evensen
- By: Kris Karkoski | May 18, 2008
Cheick Kongo will fight UFC newcomer Dan Evensen at UFC 87 “Seek and Destroy” on August 9th in Minnesota. Kongo announced the bout earlier today on his official MySpace page.
Kongo (11-4-1) is 4-2 inide the UFC octagon including a notable upset over Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic in September 2007 at UFC 75 as well as UFC wins over Gilbert Aldana, Christian Wellisch, and Assuerio Silva. He was last in action in March at UFC 82, losing via split decision to Heath Herring.
Evensen (10-2) is a Bodog Fight veteran who is currently riding a four-fight win streak with wins over Jermiah Constant, Dominic Richard, John George, and Konstantin Gluhov. He last fought in November 2007 at Bodog Fight “USA vs. Russia”, defeating Gluhov via unanimous decision.
UFC 87 features a heavyweight main event between Brock Lesnar and Mark Coleman as well as lightweight bout between title contenders Kenny Florian and Roger Huerta.
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another top contender getting a nobody, what happened when anyone else beat crocop? cmon joe silva…
May 18th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
let’s hope kongo keeps it standing this time, he is not a ground fighter, though he is improving. another boring fight and i can see him possibly getting released.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:51 am
This is record padding at its most obvious. I would have liked to see Kongo vs. Gonzaga. Much better to see 2 guys who are coming off of losses go at it than feeding a nobody to some Frenchman w/ no ground game who lost to Heath Herring.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:31 am
kongo dissapointed me his last fight…not taking anything away from herring he fought a good fight…but kongo didnt live up to my expections…i also would rather see kongo vs gonzaga
May 19th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Thats why Kongo gets a nobody bc he fought like a nobody in his last fight….so until he can show us the Kongo from his fight vs Cro Cop, he doesnt deserve top treatment!! If he loses this fight, you can kiss Kongo goodbye!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I hope Kongo loses to this nobody and is given an immediate exit out of the UFC. Not that this matchup has any appeal whatsoever, but I think Kongo is a very poor MMA fighter, highly overrated.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
dante, i agree completely. i liked him in his debut fight but since then he’s shown nothing in the way of improving his ground game. to be honest, i really don’t see him as that great a striker either, i hate to say it but he seems like an athletic looking tim sylvia. i think he got lucky that cro cop doesn’t like the cage plus he threw in a couple nut shots which didn’t help. and i’m also pretty sure he’s trained with bisping before which is the pinnacle of worthlessness in my book. xept for rampage, he’s still cool.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
2girl, i think u nailed it on the head with your post. Kongo technically is not a very good fighter, outside of his size and strength, he really has nothing. And in a sport where most of the athletes have jiu jitsu, and or wrestling backgrounds he wont last long.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Congo puts on boring fights. I was happy to see Herring come back against him. Gameplan: I smash you into cage… i single leg take you down… i lay on you… lay on you more… throw non effective short punches beacsue my lack of ground confidence prevents me form posturing up… i get stood up… repeat.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm