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History · 2016 · UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Jon Jones vs Ovince Saint Preux
From the tape · 23 Apr 2016

Jon Jones vs Ovince Saint Preux

UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jon Jones beat Ovince Saint Preux

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Interim Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

Red corner JonJones“Bones”
VSOn the tape
OP
Blue corner Ovince SaintPreux
Interim Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds23 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 12-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 9 of 15 UFC wins.
28-1
Record
27-18
−5 yr28
Age
33
+1″6' 4"
Height
6' 3"
+4″84″
Reach
80″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+716
UFC bouts
9
9/1560% of wins
Finishes
+11%5/771% of wins
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jon Jones13 sig landed
HEAD8%1 of 7BODY54%7 of 9LEGS38%5 of 10
Ovince Saint Preux12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 16BODY25%3 of 7LEGS42%5 of 8
13 of 26
Sig.
strikes
12 of 31
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Jones18 sig landed
HEAD22%4 of 10BODY22%4 of 4LEGS56%10 of 14
Ovince Saint Preux17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 30BODY12%2 of 3LEGS18%3 of 6
18 of 28
Sig.
strikes
17 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Jon Jones30 sig landed
HEAD17%5 of 12BODY20%6 of 8LEGS63%19 of 26
Ovince Saint Preux11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 31BODY18%2 of 6LEGS18%2 of 3
30 of 46
Sig.
strikes
11 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jon Jones26 sig landed
HEAD73%19 of 20BODY15%4 of 5LEGS12%3 of 4
Ovince Saint Preux6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 6BODY33%2 of 3LEGS50%3 of 3
26 of 29
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:22
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstSal D'Amato10–8Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Jones18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 14BODY17%3 of 3LEGS50%9 of 11
Ovince Saint Preux11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 30BODY27%3 of 4LEGS27%3 of 4
18 of 28
Sig.
strikes
11 of 38
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:13
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Jon JonesOvince Saint Preux
Official totals — Jon Jones first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–44
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide50–45
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–45

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 — 21 scored, Jon Jones first · unofficial

Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer50–44
Rob Young CombatPress.com50–45
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com50–45
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com50–45
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–45
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com50–45
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com50–45
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com50–45
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com50–45
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com50–45
Youngs TheMMACorner.com50–45
John Pollock Fight Network50–45
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Severe MMA.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com50–45
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Jones · 41%50-44 Jones · 20%49-46 Jones · 16%49-45 Jones · 7%48-47 Jones · 5%

164 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.

Jon Jones

1.89takedowns / 15 min
1.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
4.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.03 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
36%
0.50 / 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.

Jon Jonesclose only
no opening line on recordclose 84.7%
Ovince Saint Preuxclose only
no opening line on recordclose 15.3%
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: Jon Jones 84.7%, Ovince Saint Preux 15.3%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Jon Jones-73584.7%
Ovince Saint Preux45052915.3%
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 Jon Jones, 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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