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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira · Ben Rothwell vs Ovince Saint Preux
From the tape · 13 May 2020

Ben Rothwell vs Ovince Saint Preux

UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Ben Rothwell beat Ovince Saint Preux

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

BR
Red corner BenRothwellRothwell MMA · Kenosha, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
OP
Blue corner Ovince SaintPreux
Heavyweight3 rounds13 May 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 10 of 12 UFC wins.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Rothwell.
39-14
Record
27-18
38
Age
−1 yr37
+1″6' 4"
Height
6' 3"
78″
Reach
+2″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
13
UFC bouts
+720
+2%6/786% of wins
Finishes
10/1283% 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
Ben Rothwell7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 10BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Ovince Saint Preux9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 7BODY67%6 of 8LEGS11%1 of 4
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:35
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Preux
Ben Rothwell19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 35BODY26%5 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
Ovince Saint Preux13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 20BODY46%6 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
19 of 41
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:30
Control
0:22
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ben Rothwell30 sig landed
HEAD70%21 of 44BODY20%6 of 8LEGS10%3 of 3
Ovince Saint Preux20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 35BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
30 of 55
Sig.
strikes
20 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:44
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Ben RothwellOvince Saint Preux
Official totals — Ben Rothwell first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–28

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, Ben Rothwell first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Preux Seán Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rothwell · 35%29-28 Saint Preux · 32%30-27 Rothwell · 29%30-27 Saint Preux · 3%

114 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.

Ben Rothwell

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.03 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
36%
0.40 / 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.

Ben Rothwellclose only
no opening line on recordclose 42.2%
Ovince Saint Preuxclose only
no opening line on recordclose 57.8%
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: Ben Rothwell 42.2%, Ovince Saint Preux 57.8%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ben Rothwell12842.2%
Ovince Saint Preux-125-15157.8%
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 Ben Rothwell, 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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