UFC 130 Fight Card: Is Kendall Grove the Worst TUF Winner of All Time?

The subject of The Ultimate Fighter is one that can be either a pleasure to ramble on about with no end, of it can be that subject of conversation that you wish your friends would shut up about.

From the first season to the almost-over 13th season, every season has left us talking about something and/or someone, from the loose cannons and the douchebags, to the jokers, the "'hurt-business' men" who treat the final and the contract as if it's the champ and the belt of their division that they're fighting for in the Finale.

Some have made the most of their success after winning their season, while others have faltered, and then there are the ones like UFC 130 Middleweight fighter Kendall "Da Spyda" Grove.

Along with guys like Diego Sanchez, Joe Stevenson and fellow TUF 3 winner Michael Bisping, he's the TUF winner who has had the "rollercoaster ride" after winning the season, accumulating good wins while sporadically suffering losses.

In the grand scheme of things, do the losses to Patrick Cote, Jorge Rivera, Ricardo Almeida and the two colliding UFC 131 opponents Mark Munoz and Demian Maia—who have handed Grove his two most recent losses—make Grove the worst of the TUF winners?

Well when you put it like that, he sure sounds like it, but in the grand scheme of things, he's not the worst TUF winner.

He must be doing something correctly if he's only 7-4 in the UFC with a Fight of The Night bonus coming in the loss to Munoz—five finishes and two decision wins against three KO losses and two decision losses. Grove also has the distinction of being one of the most exciting and honest fighters in the UFC's 185-pound weight class.

The only problem he's really faced is that he was stylistically good enough to face anyone, but five of his foes in the UFC proved to be stylistically better than he was, and Tim Boetsch will present similar stylistic problems to Grove when the two collide tomorrow night.

The issues Grove's had have predominantly concerned his streak in the UFC, and not so much his actions outside of the cage, but he still brings it and looks to put on a good performance every time regardless of what's at stake.

All he needs to do is put a streak together, starting with Boetsch tomorrow night.

If he does, it'll further prove that this whole myth of him being the worst TUF winner to be exactly that: a myth and nothing more.