Ovince Saint Preux's father was a construction worker and farmer. His mother worked as a maid. The couple emigrated from their home in Haiti to the United States to make a better life for their children.
Consider that a rousing success. Saint Preux was the first member of his family to graduate college and four of his siblings have also now gotten their bachelor's degrees.
"[My parents] came here and the opportunity that they gave me, they busted their butts," Saint Preux told MMAFighting.com. "I mean, you're coming from parents that barely knew how to read and write and they basically hid everything from us and put us in a situation to better us in every which way.