Filed under: News , UFC , Videos TOKYO – Ovince Saint Preux ’s first thought when he heard he’d be fighting Yushin Okami at UFC Fight Night 117 was something like, “Oh yeah, that guy.” Like the rest of the MMA world, Saint Preux (20-10 MMA, 8-5 UFC) was under the assumption that Okami (34-10 MMA, 13-5 UFC) was no longer in the UFC. And he wasn’t, until Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (25-10 MMA, 9-8 UFC) injured his knee, scratching him from a rematch in Saturday’s headliner. “I was trying to figure out the last time he fought,” Saint Preux told MMAjunkie in advance of his FXX-televised fight opposite Okami at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. “But I watched some of his fights before, and I was like, ‘Let’s make it happen.’” Saint Preux wasn’t about to throw a full training camp and fight-night check out the door
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UFC Fight Night 117′s Ovince Saint Preux didn’t blink at switch to Yushin Okami – MMA Junkie