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Ovince Saint Preux vs.
Yushin Okami

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
14-7-0 Yushin Okami · 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
14-7-0
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
43.3
AgeΔ 1.7 yrs
45
6'3"
HeightΔ 1"
6'2"
80"
ReachΔ 5"
75"
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
22
Layoff (months)Δ 70.1 mo
92.1
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.

Yushin Okami owns the mat — in control 38% of cage time, vs a 20% Middleweight norm.
Yushin Okami hunts takedowns — 1.96 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.42 Middleweight 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

Yushin Okami

Full career not yet synced for Yushin Okami — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 10-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.7 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
5132.03/min · norm 3.25
9783.80/min · norm 3.35
Sig. strikes absorbed
5672.25/min · norm 3.20
45.9%norm 48.3%
Striking accuracy
38.5%norm 47.4%
47.2%norm 52.9%
Striking defense
61.0%norm 53.8%
60.35/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
40.24/15 · norm 0.32

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%)

Yushin Okami

Distance 75.0% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 5.9% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 19.1% (norm 10.3%)

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%)

Yushin Okami

Head 90.6% (norm 78.0%) · Body 6.2% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 3.1% (norm 8.4%)

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 Okami L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 653 / 1526 42.8% 41.4% 285 / 1000 28.5% 40.5%
In the clinch 75 / 112 67.0% 70.9% 69 / 79 87.3% 70.3%
On the ground 65 / 91 71.4% 72.3% 159 / 255 62.4% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 478 / 1290 37.1% 38.9% 405 / 1209 33.5% 38.9%
To the body 218 / 312 69.9% 71.9% 73 / 83 88.0% 71.7%
To the legs 97 / 127 76.4% 81.8% 35 / 42 83.3% 83.3%

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 · Middleweight: 174 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 Okami L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 737 / 1531 48.1% 40.4% 361 / 1187 30.4% 39.5%
In the clinch 148 / 204 72.5% 68.7% 164 / 210 78.1% 70.9%
On the ground 93 / 118 78.8% 70.4% 42 / 57 73.7% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 537 / 1249 43.0% 37.5% 299 / 1092 27.4% 37.9%
To the body 217 / 316 68.7% 72.3% 81 / 137 59.1% 71.3%
To the legs 224 / 288 77.8% 83.0% 187 / 225 83.1% 82.1%
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
3337.9% acc · 1.96/15 · norm 1.42
5268.4% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
5584.6% def · norm 63.1%
29:3811.5% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
95:5538.0% of cage time · norm 19.75%
50:092:55 per 15 · norm 2:48
Time under control
33:291:59 per 15 · norm 3:00
60.35/15 · norm 0.27
Submission attempts
90.54/15 · norm 0.47

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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