{"id":12235,"date":"2018-10-14T07:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2018-10-14T07:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T07:01:49","slug":"highlights-cheick-kongo-gnps-tim-johnson-at-bellator-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=12235","title":{"rendered":"Highlights! Cheick Kongo GNPs Tim Johnson at Bellator 208"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a guy that wasn&rsquo;t even included in Bellator&rsquo;s much ballyhooed Heavyweight Grand Prix, Cheick Kongo sure has racked up a pretty solid winning streak. His latest win at Bellator 208 is his 7th in a row and second first round KO in a row. After a two year period of nothing but decisions, Kongo seems to have recaptured his finishing spirit.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"LIVE! Bellator 208 Results, Streaming Play-By-Play Updates  \",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2018\/10\/13\/17603824\/bellator-208-results-live-fedor-vs-sonnen-streaming-play-by-play-updates\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In this case, Kongo TKO&rsquo;d Tim Johnson just 1:08 into their fight. A right hand from the French fighter as Johnson shot for a takedown was the beginning of the end. Johnson ended up with his back on the canvas and Kongo&rsquo;s knee on his chest. A quick series of ground and pound punches had the NYSAC ref stepping in and stopping things. Watch it here:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8212; 7 &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator208?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bellator208<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSlXsX4I6a\">pic.twitter.com\/MSlXsX4I6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cheick Kongo (@kongo4real) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kongo4real\/status\/1051303550503059457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>With this loss, Tim Johnson drops to 12-5 and continues a win-loss pattern that stretches back to 2015. <\/p>\n<p>For all the play by play action and results from Bellator 208, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2018\/10\/13\/17603824\/bellator-208-results-live-fedor-vs-sonnen-streaming-play-by-play-updates\">click here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a guy that wasn&rsquo;t even included in Bellator&rsquo;s much ballyhooed Heavyweight Grand Prix, Cheick Kongo sure has racked up a pretty solid winning streak. His latest win at Bellator 208 is his 7th in a row and second first round KO in a row. After a two year period of nothing but decisions, Kongo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}