UFC 80: Kendall Grove Added To Card
The Ultimate Fighter 3 middleweight winner Kendall Grove will return to the octagon at UFC 80 in Newcastle, England to face a yet-to-be-named opponent according to Grove’s training partner and The Ultimate Fighter 6 castmember Troy Mandaloniz.
After entering the third season of The Ultimate Fighter with a modest 5-3 record Grove defeated Ross Pointon, Kalib Starnes, and Ed Herman to capture the TUF 3 title. He emerged as a rising contender in the middleweight division with back-to-back wins over Chris Price and Alan Belcher. Grove was handed the first setback of his UFC career in August when he lost to Patrick Cote by late-first round knockout at UFC 74. Despite the loss Grove remains a very legitimate threat in the thin middleweight division and a short win streak could earn the Hawaiian fighter a shot at the middleweight title.
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Mandaloniz also reveals during the interview that he is currently training with Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas in preparation for a fight on The Ultimate Fighter 6 finale.
Tags: Kendall Grove, Troy Mandaloniz
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Right on! I like the “SPIDER”. He is a great fighter who has massive potential. I hoped he would beat Cote’, but it just showed how good Cote’ is, and that Grove is still young, but can fight.
Once again I agree with you scotchydow. I think Grove should fight either Terry Martin or Chris Leben or Nate Quarry in his next fight. I can’t think of any other opponent that he may possibly fight. He fought Starnes on the show, he beat Belcher and he lost to Cote. Who else is out there?
I would love to see Groves jack Leben or Nate Quarry up. He may have a hard time with Martin’s size, but I think he could submit him.
I love Nate Quarry, but I do believe you all are right. That would be a good fight for both of them. Grove is coming off a loss, and Quarry is coming off avery unimpressive victory. Let them duke it out to see who goes up. Making of a good fight. I don’t think Grove is ready to fight Leben though.
What a quality match up for da spyder against quarry or leben a win for any of them 3 would well boost their 185 ranking , hope ufc thinking of one of them match ups too!!!!!!!
I think Chris Leben is on a level above either Quarry or Grove. Leben is about as close to a contender we have in the MW other than Okami. I guess Leben vs. Macdonald, winner fights Silva, after he beats up on Okami. The only reason Leben isn;t fighting for the belt in his next fight is because his last fight with Silva makes that fight impossible to headline an event.
absolutely agree with all.
lol wat about silva vs arlovski? lol kiddng but this wuld sell.
silva vs silva /silva vs me? naa silva vs gsp
About the comment that nate quarry had an unimpressive victory …I’d say he did fairly well landing a big ko considering the fact that he just had a extremely serious spinal fusion surgery. Like to see him and grove fight.