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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie · Ovince Saint Preux vs Volkan Oezdemir
From the tape · 4 Feb 2017

Ovince Saint Preux vs Volkan Oezdemir

UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

Volkan Oezdemir beat Ovince Saint Preux

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Reed

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
Blue corner VolkanOezdemir“No Time”Fight Move Academy · Fribourg
Light Heavyweight3 rounds4 Feb 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Preux.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
27-18
Record
21-8
33
Age
−6 yr27
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+5″80″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ovince Saint Preux14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 22BODY36%5 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Volkan Oezdemir27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 36BODY33%9 of 10LEGS22%6 of 9
14 of 30
Sig.
strikes
27 of 55
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:20
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstSal D'Amato9–10JJ Ferraro9–10Joe Soliz9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ovince Saint Preux24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 55BODY17%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Volkan Oezdemir26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 39BODY23%6 of 10LEGS19%5 of 6
24 of 62
Sig.
strikes
26 of 55
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:26
Control
0:03
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstSal D'Amato10–9JJ Ferraro9–10Joe Soliz9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ovince Saint Preux38 sig landed
HEAD84%32 of 88BODY16%6 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Volkan Oezdemir29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 63BODY7%2 of 5LEGS10%3 of 4
38 of 97
Sig.
strikes
29 of 72
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstSal D'Amato10–9JJ Ferraro10–9Joe Soliz10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Reed
Ovince Saint PreuxVolkan Oezdemir
Official totals — Ovince Saint Preux first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
JJ Ferraro28–29
Joe Soliz28–29

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 — 16 scored, Ovince Saint Preux first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Preux Seán Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Preux Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Preux MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Preux Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Preux Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Preux Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com29–28
Preux Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Preux Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Preux Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Preux Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Preux MMAMania.com29–28
Preux MMAJunkie.com29–28
Preux Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Saint Preux · 63%29-28 Oezdemir · 27%29-27 Saint Preux · 3%

168 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
0.50 / 15m
3.03 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.72 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
29%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Volkan Oezdemir

0.50takedowns / 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 77.4%
Volkan Oezdemirclose only
no opening line on recordclose 22.6%
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 77.4%, Volkan Oezdemir 22.6%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ovince Saint Preux-315-40277.4%
Volkan Oezdemir32722.6%
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 Volkan Oezdemir, 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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