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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson · Ovince Saint Preux vs Rafael Cavalcante
From the tape · 6 Feb 2016

Ovince Saint Preux vs Rafael Cavalcante

UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ovince Saint Preux beat Rafael Cavalcante

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

OP
Red corner Ovince SaintPreux
VSOn the tape
RC
Blue corner RafaelCavalcante“Feijao”Ilha Solteira, Sao Paulo
Light Heavyweight3 rounds6 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Cavalcante.
27-18
Record
12-7
−3 yr32
Age
35
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
+6″80″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+48
UFC bouts
4
5/683% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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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
Ovince Saint Preux9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 26BODY11%1 of 5LEGS11%1 of 1
Rafael Cavalcante6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%3 of 5
9 of 32
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:40
Control
0:00
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Preux firstSal D'Amato10–9Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ovince Saint Preux14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 22BODY21%3 of 6LEGS7%1 of 1
Rafael Cavalcante2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
14 of 29
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:02
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstSal D'Amato10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ovince Saint Preux28 sig landed
HEAD93%26 of 38BODY7%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Cavalcante2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
28 of 41
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:52
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Preux firstSal D'Amato10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Ovince Saint PreuxRafael Cavalcante
Official totals — Ovince Saint Preux first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 13 scored, Ovince Saint Preux first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Preux Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–26
Preux Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
Preux Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
Preux Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Preux Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Preux MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Preux Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Preux SevereMMA.com30–27
Preux MMAJunkie.com30–27
Preux MMAMania.com30–27
Preux Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
Preux Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Saint Preux · 45%30-26 Saint Preux · 30%30-25 Saint Preux · 15%29-27 Saint Preux · 5%30-28 Saint Preux · 5%

20 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.

Ovince Saint Preux

1.09takedowns / 15 min
1.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.60 / 15m
3.03 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.50 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
40%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Rafael Cavalcante

0.60takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Ovince Saint Preuxclose only
no opening line on recordclose 77.6%
Rafael Cavalcanteclose only
no opening line on recordclose 22.4%
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: Ovince Saint Preux 77.6%, Rafael Cavalcante 22.4%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ovince Saint Preux-380-41077.6%
Rafael Cavalcante33222.4%
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 Rafael Cavalcante, 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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