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Events · UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin · Kendall Grove vs Goran Reljic
From the tape · 3 Jul 2010

Kendall Grove vs Goran Reljic

UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kendall Grove beat Goran Reljic

Method
Decision - Split
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.

KG
Red corner KendallGrove“Da Spyder”Straight Rootless Fight Team · Maui, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
GR
Blue corner GoranReljicRenbukai Training Center · Zadar, Dalmatia
Middleweight3 rounds3 Jul 2010
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Grove.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Reljic.
23-17
Record
15-8
27
Age
−1 yr26
+3″6' 6"
Height
6' 3"
79″
Reach
+2″81″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+810
UFC bouts
2
4/667% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Straight Rootless Fight Team
Gym
Renbukai Training Center
Maui, Hawaii
From
Zadar, Dalmatia
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
Kendall Grove14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 30BODY43%6 of 6LEGS7%1 of 2
Goran Reljic6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 22BODY67%4 of 5LEGS17%1 of 4
14 of 38
Sig.
strikes
6 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:22
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Grove firstRoy Silbert10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Kendall Grove6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 18BODY33%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Goran Reljic5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 9BODY20%1 of 2LEGS60%3 of 4
6 of 21
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
3:11
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Grove firstRoy Silbert10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Kendall Grove8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%2 of 2
Goran Reljic3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY33%1 of 2LEGS67%2 of 2
8 of 30
Sig.
strikes
3 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:03
Control
2:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Grove firstRoy Silbert10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Kendall GroveGoran Reljic
Official totals — Kendall Grove first
JudgeTotal
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 3 scored, Kendall Grove first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Grove · 67%29-28 Reljic · 33%

3 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.

Kendall Grove

0.49takedowns / 15 min
0.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.69 / 15m
1.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.38 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
50%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Goran Reljic

1.69takedowns / 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→ no move
open 43.1%close 42.7%
Goran Reljic→ no move
open 56.9%close 57.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Kendall Grove opened at 43.1% and closed at 42.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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 Grove12013043.1%42.7%−0.4pp
Goran Reljic-150-14056.9%57.3%+0.4pp
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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