The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 160: Hermansson vs. Cannonier

#2 Best: Von Preux strikes again

Ovince St. Preux picked up his 4th Von Flue choke over Michal Oleksiejczuk

I’ll be frank and say that Ovince St. Preux’s performance against Michal Oleksiejczuk wasn’t the best of his career by a long shot; he was being largely pieced up by the Polish fighter in the first round of their fight and Oleksiejczuk’s body work in particular was doing a ton of damage, clearly slowing St. Preux down to the point where he almost looked out of steam by the time the round ended.

But in the second round he managed to turn the tide by wrestling with Oleksiejczuk, and from there – to the shock of practically everyone – he managed to secure his patented choke to force the Pole to tap out. The choke in question is commonly known as the Von Flue choke, but given OSP has now used it to win a ridiculous FOUR fights, it should probably be re-christened to in the very least, the ‘Von Preux choke’.

St. Preux is clearly done as a top-level contender at 205lbs – he’s taken too much punishment over a long career to be anything but a gatekeeper now – but a damn good gatekeeper he is. Oleksiejczuk will likely bounce back from this as he looked amazing in the first round, but this was a pretty tremendous win – and finish – from OSP however you look at it.