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Fares Ziam

The Smile Killer
18-5-0
29y·6' 1"·75" reach·Orthodox
4:02
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.10
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
25%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.5
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in February 2024, 59 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 12 recorded bouts, 396 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 64%Body 19%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 12%Ground 17%
And how often each lands
Head43%
Body86%
Legs91%
Distance48%
Clinch75%
Ground63%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

8Wins2 KO · 6 DEC
3Losses1 SUB · 2 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

16%
Madge
8%
Mullarkey
0%
Vendramini
3%
McKinney
45%
Figlak
10%
Herbert
30%
Puelles
36%
Frevola
48%
Davis
60%
Sadykhov
34%
Nolan
0%
Sola

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R12.73100%12
R23.30121%10
R31.9572%9

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2.68
Strikes absorbed / min1.58
Striking accuracyof everything thrown52%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed63%
Takedowns / 15 min1.86
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land42%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed70%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.5
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together4.26
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 12 bouts12.2m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

47.8%
Landed at range
567 thrown over 11 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

Too much of this record was set against opponents who had no distance history of their own yet. The expected number would mostly be the division average wearing a disguise, so it's held back.

The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

LAxel SolaSep 2026KO R10:00 ctrl7 str0 td
Significant strikes
7 of 13 · 54%
Total strikes
7 of 13 · 54%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:40
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 0%Body 29%Legs 71%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LTom NolanJun 2026U-DEC5:07 ctrl16 str3 td
Significant strikes
16 of 32 · 50%
Total strikes
48 of 70 · 69%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
5:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 19%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 19%Ground 6%
This fight on UFCStats
WNazim SadykhovDec 2025KO R25:58 ctrl31 str2 td
Significant strikes
31 of 49 · 63%
Total strikes
76 of 96 · 79%
Takedowns
2 of 5 · 40%
Control
5:58
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:59
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 68%Body 6%Legs 26%
Position
Distance 58%Clinch 13%Ground 29%
This fight on UFCStats
WMike DavisFeb 2025U-DEC7:11 ctrl35 str4 td
Significant strikes
35 of 56 · 63%
Total strikes
58 of 83 · 70%
Takedowns
4 of 7 · 57%
Control
7:11
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
2
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 83%Body 14%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 57%Clinch 14%Ground 29%
This fight on UFCStats
WMatt FrevolaSep 2024KO R34:43 ctrl58 str4 td
Significant strikes
58 of 94 · 62%
Total strikes
69 of 107 · 64%
Takedowns
4 of 4 · 100%
Control
4:43
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 2:59
Knee to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 76%Body 19%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 12%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats
WClaudio PuellesFeb 2024S-DEC4:30 ctrl31 str0 td
Significant strikes
31 of 48 · 65%
Total strikes
58 of 82 · 71%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
4:30
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
2
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 74%Body 19%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 16%Clinch 6%Ground 77%
This fight on UFCStats
WJai HerbertJul 2023U-DEC1:30 ctrl61 str1 td
Significant strikes
61 of 113 · 54%
Total strikes
96 of 153 · 63%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
1:30
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 48%Body 31%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 74%Clinch 26%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WMichal FiglakSep 2022U-DEC6:48 ctrl60 str3 td
Significant strikes
60 of 108 · 56%
Total strikes
111 of 162 · 69%
Takedowns
3 of 7 · 43%
Control
6:48
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 57%Body 22%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 3%Ground 22%
This fight on UFCStats
LTerrance McKinneyFeb 2022SUB R10:04 ctrl1 str0 td
Significant strikes
1 of 1 · 100%
Total strikes
1 of 1 · 100%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 2:11
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 0%Body 0%Legs 100%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WLuigi VendraminiJun 2021M-DEC0:00 ctrl39 str0 td
Significant strikes
39 of 121 · 32%
Total strikes
43 of 125 · 34%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 62%Body 21%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 5%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJamie MullarkeyOct 2020U-DEC1:12 ctrl47 str1 td
Significant strikes
47 of 89 · 53%
Total strikes
54 of 98 · 55%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
1:12
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
2
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 72%Body 9%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 74%Clinch 13%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
LDon MadgeSep 2019U-DEC2:27 ctrl10 str0 td
Significant strikes
10 of 31 · 32%
Total strikes
70 of 96 · 73%
Takedowns
0 of 4 · 0%
Control
2:27
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 60%Body 10%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 20%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.