{"id":104127,"date":"2026-06-03T06:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/dalcha-lungiambula\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:42:11","slug":"dalcha-lungiambula","status":"publish","type":"fighter_profile","link":"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/dalcha-lungiambula\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalcha Lungiambula"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dalcha \u00ab\u00a0Champion\u00a0\u00bb Lungiambula \u2014 du judo congolais \u00e0 l&rsquo;octogone de l&rsquo;UFC<\/h2>\n<h3>Des tatamis de Kinshasa \u00e0 la ceinture noire<\/h3>\n<p>N\u00e9 le 31 juillet 1987 \u00e0 Kinshasa, Dalcha Lungiambula a chauss\u00e9 ses premiers zori \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de huit ans, quand son p\u00e8re lui a offert un judogi. Il gagne tellement vite que ses co\u00e9quipiers arr\u00eatent de l&rsquo;appeler par son pr\u00e9nom \u2014 c&rsquo;est \u00ab\u00a0Champion\u00a0\u00bb depuis. Ce surnom ne l\u00e2chera plus jamais. Il repr\u00e9sente l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe nationale de judo de la RDC entre 2007 et 2009, ceinture noire 2e dan au compteur, avant de reconvertir ses projections en KO et de tenter sa chance en MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Avant l&rsquo;UFC, il n&rsquo;est pas pass\u00e9 par une promotion r\u00e9gionale anecdotique. Dalcha d\u00e9croche la ceinture poids mi-lourds de l&rsquo;Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC) en 2016, la d\u00e9fend deux fois, puis monte \u00e0 l&rsquo;EFC Heavyweight pour d\u00e9crocher un second titre en 2018. Il est \u00e9lu athl\u00e8te le plus spectaculaire de l&rsquo;EFC deux saisons cons\u00e9cutives (2017\/2018 et 2018\/2019). Ancien technicien en r\u00e9frig\u00e9ration de m\u00e9tier, il bifurque d\u00e9finitivement vers le combat professionnel \u2014 et \u00e7a va payer.<\/p>\n<h3>L&rsquo;UFC : deux victoires, trop de finishs encaiss\u00e9s<\/h3>\n<p>Son entr\u00e9e dans l&rsquo;octogone date du 29 juin 2019, \u00e0 Minneapolis, face \u00e0 Dequan Townsend lors de l&rsquo;UFC on ESPN. TKO au 3e round \u2014 Dalcha marque imm\u00e9diatement les esprits. Mais l&rsquo;UFC en poids moyens, c&rsquo;est une autre jungle. D\u00e8s le combat suivant, le 9 novembre 2019 \u00e0 Moscou, il tombe sur Magomed Ankalaev \u2014 futur challenger au titre light-heavyweight \u2014 et se fait sortir par KO au 3e round.<\/p>\n<p>Il retrouve le chemin de la victoire le 20 janvier 2021 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi contre Markus Perez, une d\u00e9cision convaincante. Mais la suite vire au sc\u00e9nario difficile : d\u00e9faite aux points contre Marc-Andr\u00e9 Barriault (septembre 2021), soumission face \u00e0 Cody Brundage (mars 2022), KO au 2e round contre Punahele Soriano \u00e0 New York (juillet 2022), puis TKO au 2e round par Edmen Shahbazyan \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC 282 en d\u00e9cembre 2022. Quatre d\u00e9faites cons\u00e9cutives, et l&rsquo;UFC met fin \u00e0 son contrat.<\/p>\n<p>Au final : 11 victoires (dont 5 par KO\/TKO, 1 par soumission, 5 aux points) et 6 d\u00e9faites sur l&rsquo;ensemble de sa carri\u00e8re. Il s&rsquo;entra\u00eenait au Sanford MMA en Floride, une des salles les plus s\u00e9rieuses de la c\u00f4te est am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p>\n<h3>Un profil atypique, un finish dans les g\u00e8nes<\/h3>\n<p>Dalcha n&rsquo;est pas un combattant format\u00e9. Sa base judo lui donne une pesanteur au corps-\u00e0-corps que beaucoup de middleweights n&rsquo;ont pas, et ses cinq victoires par KO\/TKO montrent qu&rsquo;il sait transformer une projection rat\u00e9e en frappe qui fait des d\u00e9g\u00e2ts. Sa port\u00e9e de 193 cm pour 1,73 m est un avantage structurel qu&rsquo;il exploite bien en boxe debout \u2014 style confirm\u00e9 par son entra\u00eenement \u00e0 Sanford. Le probl\u00e8me rencontr\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC : face aux meilleurs, il encaisse trop, et la m\u00e2choire finit par payer.<\/p>\n<p>Il reste l&rsquo;un des rares athl\u00e8tes issus du circuit africain EFC \u00e0 avoir r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 s&rsquo;installer plusieurs ann\u00e9es dans l&rsquo;octogone. Pour un ex-technicien en froid parti des tatamis de Kinshasa, c&rsquo;est un parcours qui m\u00e9rite le respect \u2014 m\u00eame si la fin de contrat UFC laisse un go\u00fbt amer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sources-article\"><strong>Sources :<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalcha_Lungiambula\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/athlete\/dalcha-lungiambula\">UFC.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalcha \u00ab\u00a0Champion\u00a0\u00bb Lungiambula, judoka congolais 2e dan devenu double champion EFC, a disput\u00e9 7 combats \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC en poids moyens (2019-2022) pour un bilan 11-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":103078,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"fighter_category":[69983],"fighter_tag":[],"class_list":["post-104127","fighter_profile","type-fighter_profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fighter_category-light-heavyweight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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