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Events · UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie · Jamie Mullarkey vs Fares Ziam
From the tape · 17 Oct 2020

Jamie Mullarkey vs Fares Ziam

UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Fares Ziam beat Jamie Mullarkey

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner JamieMullarkeyCity Kickboxing · Central Coast, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FaresZiam“Smile Killer”Kill Cliff FC · Venissieux
Lightweight3 rounds17 Oct 2020
The story going in
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Ziam.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Mullarkey.
18-9
Record
18-5
26
Age
−3 yr23
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
City Kickboxing
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Central Coast, New South Wales
From
Venissieux
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jamie Mullarkey11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 28BODY9%1 of 4LEGS64%7 of 8
Fares Ziam22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 38BODY9%2 of 2LEGS27%6 of 6
11 of 40
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:31
Control
1:03
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Mullarkey firstBen Cartlidge9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jamie Mullarkey8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 18BODY12%1 of 3LEGS38%3 of 4
Fares Ziam13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 17BODY15%2 of 2LEGS15%2 of 2
8 of 25
Sig.
strikes
13 of 21
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:31
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mullarkey firstBen Cartlidge10–9Darryl Ransom10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jamie Mullarkey1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
Fares Ziam12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%1 of 1
1 of 7
Sig.
strikes
12 of 22
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:54
Control
0:09
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Mullarkey firstBen Cartlidge9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Lukasz Bosacki
Jamie MullarkeyFares Ziam
Official totals — Jamie Mullarkey first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide28–29
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide28–29

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 17 scored, Jamie Mullarkey first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Mullarkey · 64%29-28 Ziam · 27%30-27 Ziam · 7%30-29 Ziam · 1%

119 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Jamie Mullarkey

2.46takedowns / 15 min
2.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.73 / 15m
8.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.32 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
40%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Fares Ziam

1.73takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Jamie Mullarkey↑ +22.3pp
open 32.2%close 54.5%
Fares Ziam↓ −22.3pp
open 67.8%close 45.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jamie Mullarkey opened at 32.2% and closed at 54.5% (+22.3pp), with Fares Ziam moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Jamie Mullarkey200-13332.2%54.5%+22.3pp
Fares Ziam-23511067.8%45.5%−22.3pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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