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History · 2022 · UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje · Mauricio Rua vs Ovince Saint Preux
From the tape · 7 May 2022

Mauricio Rua vs Ovince Saint Preux

UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Ovince Saint Preux beat Mauricio Rua

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

MR
Red corner MauricioRua“Shogun”Universidade da Luta · Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
OP
Blue corner Ovince SaintPreux
Light Heavyweight3 rounds7 May 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 11 of 13 UFC wins.
27-14-1
Record
27-18
40
Age
−1 yr39
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+4″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
22
UFC bouts
+224
8/1173% of wins
Finishes
+12%11/1385% 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
Mauricio Rua20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 20BODY30%6 of 7LEGS50%10 of 11
Ovince Saint Preux20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 15BODY65%13 of 14LEGS15%3 of 5
20 of 38
Sig.
strikes
20 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rua firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Mauricio Rua21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 14BODY19%4 of 8LEGS43%9 of 11
Ovince Saint Preux20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 19BODY65%13 of 15LEGS15%3 of 5
21 of 33
Sig.
strikes
20 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rua firstEric Colón10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Rick Winter9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mauricio Rua13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 19BODY8%1 of 2LEGS46%6 of 7
Ovince Saint Preux22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 23BODY45%10 of 14LEGS9%2 of 2
13 of 28
Sig.
strikes
22 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:15
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rua firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Rick Winter9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Mauricio RuaOvince Saint Preux
Official totals — Mauricio Rua first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide27–30

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 — 16 scored, Mauricio Rua first · unofficial

Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Preux Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Preux Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Preux Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Preux Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Preux Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Preux Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Preux John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Preux CombatPress.com28–29
Preux MMAMania.com28–29
Preux MMAJunkie.com28–29
Preux Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Preux Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Preux Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Preux Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rua · 45%29-28 Saint Preux · 32%30-27 Saint Preux · 20%30-27 Rua · 2%

125 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.

Mauricio Rua

2.01takedowns / 15 min
2.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
4.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.03 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
36%
0.70 / 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 (5.96 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.

Mauricio Ruaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 31.0%
Ovince Saint Preuxclose only
no opening line on recordclose 69.0%
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: Mauricio Rua 31.0%, Ovince Saint Preux 69.0%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Mauricio Rua20731.0%
Ovince Saint Preux-160-26269.0%
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 Mauricio Rua, 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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