A heavyweight scrap between Ovince Saint Preux and Ben Rothwell served as the co-headliner of tonight’s UFC event in Jacksonville.
Saint Preux (24-13 MMA) was making his heavyweight debut this evening in Florida. Prior to moving up a division, ‘OSP‘ was coming off submission victory over Michal Oleksiejczuk at UFC Denmark.
Meanwhile, Ben Rothwell returned from a near three-year layoff in March of 2019. Since then ‘Big Ben’ has gone 1-2, scoring a TKO victory over Stefan Struve in his most recent Octagon appearance this past December.
Tonight’s UFC Jacksonville co-main event proved to be a..
Official UFC Jacksonville Result: Ovince Saint Preux vs. Ben Rothwell
Check out how the pros reacted to Rothwell defeating Saint Preux below:
Call me crazy but I gotta go with @003_OSP I remember him back in Denmark he said he was going up to heavyweight #UFCJAX
— GILBERT BURNS DURINHO (@GilbertDurinho) May 14, 2020
Lets go OSP!! #UFCJAX
— Niko Price (@Nikohybridprice) May 14, 2020
I got rothwell by KO
— Randa Markos (@randamma) May 14, 2020
Idk who to pick but I’ll go OSP by Dec just to go on the contrary. https://t.co/4OwU4GNrbE
— #OnAmission4Gold (@KelvinGastelum) May 14, 2020
Heavy weight meat slapping #UFCJAX
— ike vallie-flagg (@IKEVF) May 14, 2020
Rothwell has that dirty boxing down! #UFCJAX
— Tatiana Suarez (@tatianaufc) May 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/CubSwanson/status/1260773099332440065
Noooo! I would have liked to see some hammerfists after that knock down. It may have put him out. #UFCJAX
— Tatiana Suarez (@tatianaufc) May 14, 2020
Rothwell is trying to big daddy Ovince and man he is doing a damn good job at it. #UFCJAX
— Tatiana Suarez (@tatianaufc) May 14, 2020
OSP did great on is heavyweight debut against a big body like Big Ben.#UFCJAX
— Francis Ngannou (@francis_ngannou) May 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/JonnyBones/status/1260776018035372034
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This article first appeared on BJPENN.com on May 13, 2020