Fares Ziam

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Fares Ziam

Nickname“Smile Killer”

Record

18-4

Streak

L1

Age

29

Date of birth

Mar 21, 1997

Fighting out of: Venissieux
Born: France
Camp: Kill Cliff FC
Weight class: Lightweight
Height: 6'0" · 183 cm
Reach: 75" · 191 cm
Stance: Orthodox
Last fight: Jun 6, 2026

UFC fight history

ResultOpponentMethodDetailEvent

Axel Sola

Axel SolaUpcoming

UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs Parnasse · Sep 5, 2026

UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs Parnasse

Tom Nolan

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 6, 2026

UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim

Nazim Sadykhov

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Punches to Head On Ground · R2 · 4:59

UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · Dec 6, 2025

Punches to Head On Ground

UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2

Mike Davis

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov · Feb 1, 2025

UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov

Matt Frevola

#14Matt Frevola

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Knee to Head In Clinch · R3 · 2:59

UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Saint Denis · Sep 28, 2024

Knee to Head In Clinch

UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Saint Denis

Claudio Puelles

Claudio Puelles

Lightweight · Decision · Split · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Feb 24, 2024

UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2

Jai Herbert

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura · Jul 22, 2023

UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura

Michal Figlak

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa · Sep 3, 2022

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa

Terrance McKinney

Terrance McKinney

Lightweight · Submission · Rear Naked Choke · R1 · 2:11

UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Green · Feb 26, 2022

Rear Naked Choke

UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Green

Luigi Vendramini

Luigi Vendramini

Lightweight · Decision · Majority · R3 · 5:00

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Jun 12, 2021

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2

Jamie Mullarkey

Jamie Mullarkey

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie · Oct 17, 2020

UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie

Don Madge

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier · Sep 7, 2019

UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier

Outside the UFC

10-2across 12 bouts · 10 promotions · wins by 5 KO · 4 sub · 1 decWWFC · LFC · EBD 5 · EBD 4 · Hit-FC +5

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Yassine Belhadj8-3	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R3	1:05	EBD 5	Feb 2, 2019
W	Julio Matos6-5	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	EBD 4	Oct 13, 2018
W	Abner Lloveras22-17-1	KO/TKO	Punch	R2	0:24	Hit-FC	Mar 10, 2018
W	Alexey Valivakhin14-16	KO/TKO	Punches and Elbows	R1	3:01	WWFC	Sep 27, 2017
W	Artem Tanshyn9-9	KO/TKO	Elbows	R1	3:18	WWFC	Apr 29, 2017
L	Haotian Wu27-13-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:41	Kunlun Fight	Dec 15, 2016
W	Damien Lapilus23-15-3	KO/TKO	Head Kick	R1	—	LFC	Nov 19, 2016
L	Viskhan Magomadov13-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:58	ACB 46	Sep 24, 2016
W	Laid Zerhouni15-10	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R3	2:32	GFA	Mar 5, 2016
W	Jean Dutriaux8-15	Submission	Arm-Triangle Choke	R1	1:50	100% Fight 27	Feb 4, 2016
W	Dominic Yeo0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	4:58	WSFC 3	Nov 28, 2015
W	Mathias Guerra2-2	Submission	Armbar	R1	4:12	LFC	Nov 22, 2014

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Career striking

OverallB64th

52%389 / 742

Striking accuracy

65%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+1.34 differential

Landed2.87

Absorbed1.53

68%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+17%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head66%48th255
Body19%44th72
Leg16%49th62

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

70%Standing

Standing70%271
Clinch13%49
Ground18%69

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Fares Ziam

Fares Ziam

Landed per 15

Head

C

45th

26.4

45th

Body

D

40th

7.4

40th

Leg

C

47th

6.4

47th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

A+

96th

9.7

96th

Body

B

61st

8.1

61st

Leg

B

65th

6.0

65th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	26.4	255	590	43%
Body	7.4	72	84	86%
Leg	6.4	62	68	91%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	9.7	94	439	21%
Body	8.1	78	118	66%
Leg	6.0	58	78	74%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Fares Ziam

Fares Ziam

11 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 145 min

94%

R3 pace · 9 bouts

Ziam holds steady (-3% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Ziam keeps 94% of round-1 output by round 3 (9 bouts).

Fares Ziam

Ziam ▼ FADESOutput / min

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Fares Ziam

Ziamlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Fares Ziam

Ziamattempts / min

Control time

Fares Ziam

Ziam% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.6	2.7	1.7	0.27	27%	11
R2	5.0	3.3	1.5	0.24	25%	10
R3	4.3	2.0	1.6	0.37	30%	9

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Fares Ziam

Fares Ziam

11 resolved UFC bouts · 1 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

40/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

C

43rd

29%

43rd

Win quality

A+

88th

57%

88th

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

2

1

2

3

3

Ranked 6–15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Ranked 6–15	2	1-1	50%
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%
Established	2	2-0	100%
Building	3	3-0	100%
Unproven	3	2-1	67%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Tom Nolan	Ranked 6–15	48	Jun 6, 2026
W	Nazim Sadykhov	Building	18	Dec 6, 2025
W	Mike Davis	Established	26	Feb 1, 2025
W	Matt Frevola#14	Ranked 6–15	62	Sep 28, 2024
W	Claudio Puelles	Established	30	Feb 24, 2024
W	Jai Herbert	Building	18	Jul 22, 2023
W	Michal Figlak	Unproven	8	Sep 3, 2022
L	Terrance McKinney	Contender-level	32	Feb 26, 2022
W	Luigi Vendramini	Unproven	8	Jun 12, 2021
W	Jamie Mullarkey	Building	15	Oct 17, 2020
L	Don Madge	Unproven	8	Sep 7, 2019

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

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