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History · 2008 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale · Kendall Grove vs Evan Tanner
From the tape · 21 Jun 2008

Kendall Grove vs Evan Tanner

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kendall Grove beat Evan Tanner

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · 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
ET
Blue corner EvanTannerHard Knocks Kickboxing · Amarillo, Texas
Middleweight3 rounds21 Jun 2008
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 9 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Grove.
23-17
Record
32-8
−12 yr25
Age
37
+6″6' 6"
Height
6' 0"
+5″79″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+1116
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+15%9/1182% of wins
Straight Rootless Fight Team
Gym
Hard Knocks Kickboxing
Maui, Hawaii
From
Amarillo, Texas
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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 Grove11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 17BODY18%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Evan Tanner4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
11 of 19
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:44
Control
3:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Kendall Grove30 sig landed
HEAD83%25 of 40BODY10%3 of 3LEGS7%2 of 2
Evan Tanner9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 6BODY22%2 of 2LEGS44%4 of 4
30 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:25
Control
2:53
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 18Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kendall Grove18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 27BODY28%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Evan Tanner14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 19BODY21%3 of 3LEGS21%3 of 3
18 of 32
Sig.
strikes
14 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
2:52
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 9Ground 0
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 - Split

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Official totals — Kendall Grove first
JudgeTotal
Al Lefkowitz28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–26
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–26

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
2.55 / 15m
1.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.93 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
43%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Evan Tanner

2.55takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Kendall Grove↓ −9.6pp
open 50.0%close 40.4%
Evan Tanner↑ +9.6pp
open 50.0%close 59.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kendall Grove opened at 50.0% and closed at 40.4% (−9.6pp), with Evan Tanner moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Kendall Grove-12014050.0%40.4%−9.6pp
Evan Tanner-120-16050.0%59.6%+9.6pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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