Neil Grove wasn’t thinking much about fighting when Bellator officials called him to participate in their next heavyweight tournament.
Because during that call, the promotion also told him they had decided to bring back commentator Jimmy Smith, whom Grove had been groomed to replace in the booth.
Commentary had been something Grove had fallen in love with until that point. But, of course, fighting was what he loved too, and he was being given a chance to win the tournament and get a second shot at the man who defeated him to take the first-ever Bellator heavyweight title.