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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Ortiz vs. Team Shamrock Finale · Kendall Grove vs Ed Herman
From the tape · 24 Jun 2006

Kendall Grove vs Ed Herman

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Ortiz vs. Team Shamrock Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kendall Grove beat Ed Herman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Ultimate Fighter 3 Middleweight Tournament TitleMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

KG
Red corner KendallGrove“Da Spyder”Straight Rootless Fight Team · Maui, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
EH
Blue corner EdHerman“Short Fuse”American Top Team Portland · Portland, Oregon
Ultimate Fighter 3 Middleweight Tournament Title3 rounds24 Jun 2006
The story going in
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Herman.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Grove.
23-17
Record
27-16
−2 yr23
Age
25
+5″6' 6"
Height
6' 1"
+2″79″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Straight Rootless Fight Team
Gym
American Top Team Portland
Maui, Hawaii
From
Portland, Oregon
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Kendall Grove4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 3BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ed Herman18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 20BODY56%10 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 5
Sig.
strikes
18 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:14
Control
4:24
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 16
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
Kendall Grove10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 10BODY50%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Ed Herman3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 15
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:04
Control
2:23
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action4 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Kendall Grove11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 12BODY27%3 of 3LEGS27%3 of 4
Ed Herman12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 16BODY17%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 19
Sig.
strikes
12 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
1:05
Control
2:56
3
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 9
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Official totals — Kendall Grove first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Kendall Grove

0.49takedowns / 15 min
0.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.96 / 15m
1.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.17 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
47%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ed Herman

1.96takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Kendall Grove vs Ed Herman.

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