Kongo Replaces Velasquez Against Al-Turk at UFC 92
UFC newcomer Mustafa Al-Turk (6-3) will make his UFC debut against fellow heavyweight Cheick Kongo (17-4-1) at UFC 92 on December 27th in Las Vegas.
Al-Turk, who recently vacated his Cage Rage heavyweight title to sign a four-fight deal with the UFC, was to take on up-and-coming heavyweight Cain Velasquez in December, but he will now take on Kongo after Velasquez was forced out of the bout due to a knee injury that will require surgery.
MMA Weekly reported the developments on Tuesday.
Following back-to-back losses to begin his career Al-Turk scored four-straight victories before suffering his third professional loss in late-2007. He’s since rebounded with back-to-back stoppage wins over Gary Turner and James McSweeney.
Kongo has earned five victories in seven fights inside the octagon, including a decision win over Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and a first-round knockout of Dan Evensen at UFC 87 in August in his most-recent fight.
UFC 92 features a championship clash between The Ultimate Fighter 8 coaches interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir.
For more on UFC 92 check out the MMAFrenzy.com MMA rumors section.
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damn i liked velasquez hes gonna b big in that division
sounds like a decent fight, i wonder if kongo will wear his monkey shirt again. maybe he’ll come out of the locker room with an actual silverback walking with him.
WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME IS THAT KONGO WAS SCARED OF BROCK. I THOUGHT HE HAD AN INJURY…
tough first fight in the ufc, a good win for kongo and he puts his name in the hat for a shot. hey YZ long time hows it going?
OH IM ALWAYS ON HERE READYING BUT DON’T COMMENT MUCH ANYMORE… ALOT OF PEOPLE JUST COMMENT TO GET THERE NAMES ON TOP COMMENTATOR… SO I’D JUST RATHER READ THE NEWS…
YZFOXRACING , I hear you
Kongo is afraid of Lesnar, it’s that clear now.
Hmmm…should see some fists flying here. As long as Kongo doesnt start his inconceivable takedowns again and sticks to his kickboxing.
I still cant see Al-Turk beating him though. Kongo by TKO in the second or third.
i no what u mean dolfanG has 820 thats sum serious commens there lol no disrespect to him tho im not fussed, i just thought ude left the site haha
LOL I HAVE BETTER SH1T TO DO THEN COMMENT 800 TIMES…
JOHNBOY,
I don’t mean to be rude, and I don’t want to offend, or pick a fight or anything, but I have to say something about this because it really bothers me.
I recognize that you’re in the UK, and therefore you guys spell certain things differently and use certain words differently than Americans do, however my employer is Australian and they use/spell things much the same you do in the UK. However, as a personal issue, your creative spelling, and some times grammar really bother me. I get tired of reading “i no they have an car tho..” (made up example). Its not really anything personal against you, and I respect your “right” to post on here, and otherwise, to an extent, enjoy your commentary.
hey justin, rarely (or never) do i defend johnboy, but that last post you put up there made you sound like a total sissy.
bisping still sucks!
most of the time is prob just me miss spelling, but on the other hand im from yorkshire an we tend to say things diffrent to most people, dont worry about offendin me nobody on here can do that u here no KELVIN nobody haha
* dont worry about offending me nobody on here can do that, u hear kelvin nobody haha,
i just try an type to quick also and dont always check after, but i will try make more of an effort from now on ok justin
kelvin stop being nice to me its doesn’t sound right
LOL at JOHNBOY,no big deal. I just had to say something about it. BTW I don’t know what browser you use, but I use Mozilla Firefox 3.0 (not sure if this affects this or not) everything I type in to comment on here gets spell checked. I guess its built into Firefox ::shrugs::
kelvin, I’m not like you where I like to hide behind a computer and try to pick fights with someone, that’s more the sissy thing to do. So that’s why all the stuff about not trying to offend. And saying something about the spelling is because I don’t like to look at crap spelling and grammar.
@YZ, wecome back to posting if even for just a bit, if you dont like certain people just get them banned like you use too(haha jk)
@JohnBoy, Bisbing is going to lose, yet thats just my opionion good to see that you and Kelvin are getting along cheers
i just use internet and that doesn’t give spell check, ive been told to download mozilla firebox i might just do that,
what i hate is that the ufc brings in all these good heavyweights carwin,velasquaz,al turk,mccully..when they could have easily saved them all for a great hw season of the ultimate fighter…..hw is the most lack luster division in the ufc yet they dont bring any hw’s in for a season of the show….the only reason season 2 with hw sucked is because they had all smaller hw who eventually dropped after..they need to put some big hw’s in a season so we can have a great hw divison like the ufc used to
You won’t regret switching to Firefox.
Agreed. However I would not get rid of IE7, some websites are “optimized” for IE7, which means they only work with IE7. Also, many corporate websites that are more like applications than websites work better on IE, because most of the people in corporate environments use IE. Google Chrome still has a long way to go.
I’d like to see Congo vs Mir , good all round matchup right there .or how about him and Overeem?two big lanky dudes with kickboxing skills would be wicked !!! what do you guys think ?
Mir v Congo (Mir triangle choke first rd)
Congo v Overeem (Overeem by sledgehammer) seriously that would be a nice one to see i dont know who would win it and both like to knee CC in the nuts but Overeem did it better i guess????
Justin, better than a bunch of red necks talking.
Calvin…Bispingaphobe=true love
@FR702,
I agree with the triangle…I just see head and arm from the top. I would play the percentage and say Mir gets top when they go to the ground and doesn’t let it go…
I think the cardio thing with Mir is actually going to help his game in the long run because people are going to press him at the heavyweight because they want to force the mistake due to fatigue which is gooing to lead to openings for him to exploit…Kind of like speed chess….
Overeem wins the other match IMO. He is used to the weight now and both are strikers so taller man has advantage…