Former UFC fighters Hector Lombard and Cheick Kongo traded in their mixed martial arts (MMA) gloves to compete in a hilarious Pillow Fight Championship bout Friday night (Aug. 1, 2025) from inside the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.<\/p>\n
No, you didn\u2019t read that wrong. Lombard and Kongo really went toe-to-toe in a bona fide pillow fight live on ESPN8: The Ocho on Friday night. The obscure event was presented by Hush and showcased the two former UFC contenders battling it out in the main event.<\/p>\n
Lombard, 47, was last seen competing at Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 6 back in Nov. 2023 and ended up capturing a TKO victory over Chris Sarro. Kongo, who turned 50 earlier this year, hasn\u2019t competed in any combat sport since dropping a decision loss to Ryan Bader in a Bellator MMA heavyweight title fight back in 2022. Friday night\u2019s matchup was a great chance for Lombard and Kongo to earn a little extra spotlight on the tail end of their fighting careers.<\/p>\n
After the feathers settled, it was Lombard who walked away with the win over Kongo and the right to call himself the Pillow Fight Championship winner. You can watch the entire fight (if we\u2019re even calling it that) in the above video player.<\/p>\n
Some fight fans had a field day after seeing the two former UFC fighters lock horns in a real pillow fight. Check out some of their reaction below and let us know your final thoughts!<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should be wearing pajamas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWould Jones return for a pillow fight with Aspinall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s actually funny. Can\u2019t be mad at them for having some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWow I always wanted to see Lombard vs. Kongo\u2026and now we get it in pillow fighting. Truly a man\u2019s dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFeel like it\u2019d be way better if they had a pillow in each hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the era of 98-year-old Mike Tyson losing to a roided-up loser, this is the best outcome for retired MMA fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlright we need the NFL to start ASAP!!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought power slap was stupid but this might take the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason Aliens will eliminate our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighters Hector Lombard and Cheick Kongo traded in their mixed martial arts (MMA) gloves to compete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,9663,1646,18330,1913,35546,786,35545,21694,585,35544,35548,4717,1347,35547,785,1645,35550,85,787,1396,446,35549],"class_list":["post-40183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-championship","tag-com","tag-feathers","tag-fight","tag-fighters","tag-fighting","tag-fly","tag-former","tag-front-page","tag-heavy","tag-horns","tag-in","tag-latest-news","tag-lock","tag-mma","tag-mmamania","tag-pillow","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-video","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}