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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa · Fares Ziam vs Michal Figlak
From the tape · 3 Sep 2022

Fares Ziam vs Michal Figlak

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Result

Fares Ziam beat Michal Figlak

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Rich Mitchell

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 FaresZiam“Smile Killer”Kill Cliff FC · Venissieux
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MichalFiglak“Mad Dog”Trojan Free Fighters · Poznan
Lightweight3 rounds3 Sep 2022
The story going in
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Figlak.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Ziam.
18-5
Record
8-2
−1 yr25
Age
26
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
+5″75″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Trojan Free Fighters
Venissieux
From
Poznan
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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
Fares Ziam24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 25BODY29%7 of 8LEGS25%6 of 6
Michal Figlak15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 35BODY40%6 of 7LEGS27%4 of 4
24 of 39
Sig.
strikes
15 of 46
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:25
Control
0:41
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ziam firstChristophe Chapuis10–9Howard Hughes9–10Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Fares Ziam19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 36BODY21%4 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
Michal Figlak5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 12BODY40%2 of 6LEGS40%2 of 2
19 of 42
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:23
Control
0:17
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ziam firstChristophe Chapuis10–9Howard Hughes10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Fares Ziam17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 20BODY12%2 of 2LEGS29%5 of 5
Michal Figlak8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 27BODY12%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 27
Sig.
strikes
8 of 30
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:00
Control
0:37
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Ziam firstChristophe Chapuis10–9Howard Hughes10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Rich Mitchell
Fares ZiamMichal Figlak
Official totals — Fares Ziam first
JudgeTotal
Christophe Chapuis30–27
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–27

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 — 14 scored, Fares Ziam first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com30–27
Alex Behunin Cageside Press30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Jillian DeCoursey30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ziam · 82%30-26 Ziam · 12%29-27 Ziam · 3%29-28 Figlak · 3%

33 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.

Fares Ziam

1.73takedowns / 15 min
1.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
4.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.17 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
12%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Michal Figlak

0.50takedowns / 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.

Fares Ziam↓ −14.2pp
open 50.0%close 35.8%
Michal Figlak↑ +14.2pp
open 50.0%close 64.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Fares Ziam opened at 50.0% and closed at 35.8% (−14.2pp), with Michal Figlak 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
Fares Ziam-11016850.0%35.8%−14.2pp
Michal Figlak-110-20350.0%64.2%+14.2pp
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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