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Ovince Saint Preux vs.
Tanner Boser

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

15-13-0 Ovince Saint Preux · UFC
5-6-0 Tanner Boser · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

15-13-0
UFC record
5-6-0
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Heavyweight
43.3
AgeΔ 8.3 yrs
35
6'3"
HeightΔ 1"
6'2"
80"
ReachΔ 5"
75"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
22
Layoff (months)Δ 18.4 mo
3.6
LWLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLLW
The read

What the numbers say.

Scouting notes, auto-generated — only stats deviating more than 25% from the division median make this list. No narratives, just deviations.

Tanner Boser rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.95 Heavyweight norm.
Tanner Boser outworks the Heavyweight division — 4.82 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.36 norm.
Ovince Saint Preux is a submission threat — 0.35 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.27 Light Heavyweight norm.
Level of competition

Who did they actually beat?

Full-career records re-graded by the tier of opposition — the same grading the Contender Series pick model uses. Records built on tier-4 competition are worth less than records built on killers.

Ovince Saint Preux

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1513
Tier 3 — regional circuit 125

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.79 · 15 tier-1/2 wins · 20 finish wins over 45 documented bouts

In the UFC: 11-10 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.1 wins over .500

Tanner Boser

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 56
Tier 3 — regional circuit 175

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.67 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 14 finish wins over 34 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

7933.08/min · norm 3.41
Sig. strikes landed
5764.82/min · norm 3.36
9783.80/min · norm 3.35
Sig. strikes absorbed
3593.00/min · norm 3.19
45.9%norm 48.3%
Striking accuracy
53.5%norm 47.8%
47.2%norm 52.9%
Striking defense
57.5%norm 52.5%
60.35/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
20.25/15 · norm 0.28

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Ovince Saint Preux

Distance 88.3% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 6.5% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 10.4%)

Tanner Boser

Distance 90.5% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 6.2% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 3.3% (norm 9.3%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Ovince Saint Preux

Head 74.6% (norm 79.2%) · Body 18.0% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 7.3% (norm 9.7%)

Tanner Boser

Head 67.6% (norm 79.2%) · Body 13.6% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 18.9% (norm 7.6%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Preux L/AAccLight Heavyweight med Boser L/AAccHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 653 / 1526 42.8% 41.4% 498 / 974 51.1% 40.1%
In the clinch 75 / 112 67.0% 70.9% 52 / 67 77.6% 70.6%
On the ground 65 / 91 71.4% 72.3% 26 / 35 74.3% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 478 / 1290 37.1% 38.9% 278 / 727 38.2% 38.9%
To the body 218 / 312 69.9% 71.9% 112 / 146 76.7% 76.8%
To the legs 97 / 127 76.4% 81.8% 186 / 203 91.6% 87.8%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Light Heavyweight: 93 fighters · Heavyweight: 93 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Preux L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med vs Boser L/AOpp accHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 737 / 1531 48.1% 40.4% 288 / 762 37.8% 40.7%
In the clinch 148 / 204 72.5% 68.7% 45 / 56 80.4% 70.6%
On the ground 93 / 118 78.8% 70.4% 26 / 27 96.3% 72.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 537 / 1249 43.0% 37.5% 224 / 659 34.0% 38.8%
To the body 217 / 316 68.7% 72.3% 86 / 123 69.9% 75.1%
To the legs 224 / 288 77.8% 83.0% 49 / 63 77.8% 84.4%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

1528.3% acc · 0.87/15 · norm 0.87
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 0.95
5268.4% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
1669.6% def · norm 64.3%
29:3811.5% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
9:007.5% of cage time · norm 17.2%
50:092:55 per 15 · norm 2:48
Time under control
18:292:19 per 15 · norm 2:28
60.35/15 · norm 0.27
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.16

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — Preux has more cage time on record.

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