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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura · Ovince Saint Preux vs Kennedy Nzechukwu
From the tape · 16 Mar 2024

Ovince Saint Preux vs Kennedy Nzechukwu

UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ovince Saint Preux beat Kennedy Nzechukwu

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 KennedyNzechukwu“African Savage”Fortis MMA · Dallas, Texas
Light Heavyweight3 rounds16 Mar 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 26 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Nzechukwu.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Preux.
27-18
Record
14-7-1
40
Age
−9 yr31
6' 3"
Height
+2″6' 5"
80″
Reach
+3″83″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1626
UFC bouts
10
11/1479% of wins
Finishes
+5%5/683% 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ovince Saint Preux26 sig landed
HEAD38%10 of 38BODY27%7 of 10LEGS35%9 of 9
Kennedy Nzechukwu22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 37BODY27%6 of 18LEGS9%2 of 2
26 of 57
Sig.
strikes
22 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ovince Saint Preux44 sig landed
HEAD68%30 of 62BODY23%10 of 12LEGS9%4 of 5
Kennedy Nzechukwu29 sig landed
HEAD86%25 of 73BODY14%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
44 of 79
Sig.
strikes
29 of 80
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 44Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD PreuxEnded 5:00
Ovince Saint Preux73 sig landed
HEAD79%58 of 123BODY21%15 of 17LEGS0%0 landed
Kennedy Nzechukwu55 sig landed
HEAD84%46 of 103BODY16%9 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
73 of 140
Sig.
strikes
55 of 113
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:08
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 61Clinch 11Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Preux firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Ovince Saint PreuxKennedy Nzechukwu
Official totals — Ovince Saint Preux first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 12 scored, Ovince Saint Preux first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Preux MMAMania.com30–27
Preux Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
Preux Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Preux Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Preux Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Preux Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Preux Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Preux Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Preux Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Preux Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Combat Press.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Saint Preux · 46%30-27 Saint Preux · 37%29-28 Nzechukwu · 12%30-26 Saint Preux · 3%30-27 Nzechukwu · 2%

99 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
1.11 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
45%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Kennedy Nzechukwu

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 (5.32 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.

Ovince Saint Preuxclose only
no opening line on recordclose 16.4%
Kennedy Nzechukwuclose only
no opening line on recordclose 83.6%
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 16.4%, Kennedy Nzechukwu 83.6%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ovince Saint Preux24048616.4%
Kennedy Nzechukwu-67083.6%
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% · dated 2024-03-17 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Kennedy Nzechukwu, 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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