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Age: 25
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Born: November 12, 1982
Overall MMA Record (W-L-D): 10-5-0
Strengths: Height, Heart, and desire to never give up
Association: Team Punishment
Country of origin: United States
Born: Maui, Hawaii
Fighting Out Of: Maui, Hawaii
Kendall started training in late 2002. He stated, "I really loved it, and never thought about fighting, but I was helping Phil Baroni train for a fight and after one session he said ‘you’ve got potential, you should start fighting.’ Two months later I was in the ring fighting."
Grove became a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 3, a reality television show, training under Tito Ortiz. In The Ultimate Fighter 3, he won a preliminary victory against Ross Pointon by rear naked choke and in the semi-finals defeated Kalib Starnes; a rib injury incurred by Starnes during the fight caused him to verbally submit. He defeated Ed Herman in the finals in a close but unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) in the series finale, winning a six-figure contract. In his first bout since the show on October 10, 2006, Grove defeated then-undefeated Chris Price in the first round via a submission (ground and pound, due to strikes).
After the taping of the series, Grove was invited to Ortiz's training camp, Team Punishment, and has trained with Ortiz along with many of his former teammates on The Ultimate Fighter 3 at Ortiz's Big Bear City, California training facility. He had prviously trained at Randy Couture's camp, Xtreme Couture.
At UFC 74, Grove experienced his first loss in the UFC to Patrick Côté, who won by knockout in the first round. Grove experienced his second consecutive loss at UFC 80 to Jorge Rivera by TKO at 1:20 in the first round.
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(W-L-D) 10-5-0
Loss: Jorge Rivera TKO (strikes) UFC 80: Rapid Fire 1/19/2008
Loss: Patrick Côté KO (strikes) UFC 74: Respect 8/25/2007
Win: Alan Belcher Submission (Brabo choke) UFC 69:Shootout 04/7/2007
Win: Chris Price Submission (Strikes) Ortiz vs. Shamrock 3: The Final Chapter 10/10/2006
Win: Ed Herman Decision (Unanimous) UFC Ultimate Fighter 3 Finale 6/24/2006
*Ultimate Fighter 3 Middleweight Champion
Win: Jay Carter Submission (Triangle Choke) ROTR-Showdown in Maui 10/7/2005
Loss: Hector Ramirez KO (Punch) KOTC-Mortal Sins 5/7/2005
Win: Matt Gidney Submission (Rear Naked Choke) TC 8-Total Combat 8 4/2/2005
Loss: Savant Young Technical Submission (Choke) LIP 1-Lockdown in Paradise 1 3/19/2005
Win: Matt Hendricks TKO TC 7-Total Combat 7 1/29/2005
No contest: Ricky Gunz (No Contest) TC 6-Total Combat 6 10/24/2004
Loss: Joe Riggs KO (Strikes) ROTR 5-Rumble on the Rock 5 5/7/2004
Win: Kaipo Kalama Submission (Rear Naked Choke) SB 34-SuperBrawl 34 3/28/2004
Win: Tripstin Kersiano Submission (Triangle Choke) KFC 3-Island Pride 7/27/2003>
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