3. Ovince Saint Preux’s heavyweight experiment fails
It’s hard to watch [autotag]Ovince Saint Preux[/autotag]’s loss to Ben Rothwell and feel like a permanent move to heavyweight would be a good career choice. It just wasn’t a great showing, despite him taking one scorecard to make it a split decision.
If Saint Preux is to stay at heavyweight, he needs to vow to let his offense go. When he did that against Rothwell, he had great success. When he didn’t, he got overwhelmed and worn out by the bigger fighter. It’s understandable that Saint Preux would be more cautious when there’s greater firepower coming back from the other side, but he had to know that before stepping in the octagon.
At 240.5 pounds, Saint Preux didn’t look massively out-sized at heavyweight. However, Rothwell’s size and strength were definitely a factor, and the light heavyweight division is probably the better fit for OSP going forward.
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