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History · 2009 · UFC 101: Declaration · Ricardo Almeida vs Kendall Grove
From the tape · 8 Aug 2009

Ricardo Almeida vs Kendall Grove

UFC 101: Declaration · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Ricardo Almeida beat Kendall Grove

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

RA
Red corner RicardoAlmeida“Big Dog”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Bordentown, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
KG
Blue corner KendallGrove“Da Spyder”Straight Rootless Fight Team · Maui, Hawaii
Middleweight3 rounds8 Aug 2009
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Grove.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
13-5
Record
23-17
32
Age
−6 yr26
6' 0"
Height
+6″6' 6"
74″
Reach
+5″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+17
+7%2/367% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Straight Rootless Fight Team
Bordentown, New Jersey
From
Maui, Hawaii
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ricardo Almeida12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 9BODY50%6 of 7LEGS8%1 of 2
Kendall Grove7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 13BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 18
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
2 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:54
Control
0:12
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 2
Judges · this round · Almeida firstJeff Blatnick10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Ricardo Almeida16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 23BODY19%3 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Kendall Grove5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
16 of 27
Sig.
strikes
5 of 11
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:33
Control
0:15
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Almeida firstJeff Blatnick10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricardo Almeida10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 13BODY10%1 of 1LEGS30%3 of 3
Kendall Grove13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 27BODY31%4 of 4LEGS23%3 of 3
10 of 17
Sig.
strikes
13 of 34
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:44
Control
0:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 8Ground 3
Judges · this round · Almeida firstJeff Blatnick10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Ricardo AlmeidaKendall Grove
Official totals — Ricardo Almeida first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide30–27
Douglas Crosby30–27
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 4 scored, Ricardo Almeida first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Almeida · 60%29-28 Almeida · 40%

5 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

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.

Ricardo Almeida

3.74takedowns / 15 min
3.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.49 / 15m
9.84 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.09 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
45%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Kendall Grove

0.49takedowns / 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

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.

Ricardo Almeida↓ −2.4pp
open 61.4%close 59.0%
Kendall Grove↑ +2.4pp
open 38.6%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricardo Almeida opened at 61.4% and closed at 59.0% (−2.4pp), with Kendall Grove 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
Ricardo Almeida-185-15061.4%59.0%−2.4pp
Kendall Grove14514038.6%41.0%+2.4pp
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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