Team Takedown and Cobra Kai members Jake Rosholt, Johnny Hendricks and Shane Roller will all enter the 15th Grapplers Quest in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 9.The three fighters come from accomplished collegiate wrestling backgrounds and study grappling under Marc Laimon. For Grapplers Quest, they will grapple at a weight division above their respective mixed martial arts weight class.
UFC middleweight Rosholt will hit the mats in the light heavyweight division. His next MMA fight will be against Chris Leben at UFC 102 on August 29. Rosholt lost in his UFC debut in February when he was forced to succumb to Dan Miller's guillotine choke at the 63-second mark.
Hendricks, who will make his UFC debut against The Ultimate Fighter 7 winner Amir Sadollah in a welterweight bout at UFC 101 on August 8, will grapple in the middleweight division.
Rosholt and Hendricks were transferred to the UFC after the WEC phased out its welterweight and middleweight divisions. Roller, a lightweight, stayed on with the WEC.
Roller will compete at Grapplers Quest as a welterweight. The 29-year-old fighter lost earlier this month via TKO to Ben Henderson at WEC 40: Torres vs. Mizugaki.
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