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History · 2013 · UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen · Gian Villante vs Ovince Saint Preux
From the tape · 27 Apr 2013

Gian Villante vs Ovince Saint Preux

UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Ovince Saint Preux beat Gian Villante

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
0:33
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Mulhall

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

GV
Red corner GianVillanteBellmore Kickboxing Academy · Bellmore, New York
VSOn the tape
OP
Blue corner Ovince SaintPreux
Light Heavyweight3 rounds27 Apr 2013
17-14
Record
27-18
−3 yr27
Age
30
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
76″
Reach
+4″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Gian Villante10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 3BODY20%2 of 4LEGS60%6 of 7
Ovince Saint Preux27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 33BODY7%2 of 2LEGS11%3 of 3
10 of 14
Sig.
strikes
27 of 38
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:04
Control
0:42
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstEric Colón9–10Michael Depasquale Jr.9–10Jose Tabora9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gian Villante17 sig landed
HEAD18%3 of 8BODY6%1 of 3LEGS76%13 of 19
Ovince Saint Preux18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 29BODY17%3 of 5LEGS33%6 of 8
17 of 30
Sig.
strikes
18 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:08
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstEric Colón9–10Michael Depasquale Jr.10–9Jose Tabora10–10
Round 30:33 of actionEnded 0:33
Gian Villante1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 3
Ovince Saint Preux2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
1 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Villante firstEric Colón10–10Michael Depasquale Jr.10–10Jose Tabora10–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Majority Decision

Referee · Kevin Mulhall
Gian VillanteOvince Saint Preux
Official totals — Gian Villante first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–30
Michael Depasquale Jr.29–29
Jose Tabora29–30

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 5 scored, Gian Villante first · unofficial

Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Preux Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-28 Saint Preux · 13%30-29 Saint Preux · 10%29-28 Villante · 8%

38 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Gian Villante

0.45takedowns / 15 min
0.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
1.96 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.03 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
36%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Ovince Saint Preux

1.09takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Gian Villanteclose only
no opening line on recordclose 41.5%
Ovince Saint Preuxclose only
no opening line on recordclose 58.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Gian Villante 41.5%, Ovince Saint Preux 58.5%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Gian Villante13541.5%
Ovince Saint Preux-175-15058.5%
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Gian Villante, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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