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Events · UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura · Jai Herbert vs Fares Ziam
From the tape · 22 Jul 2023

Jai Herbert vs Fares Ziam

UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Fares Ziam beat Jai Herbert

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 JaiHerbert“Black Country Banger”Renegade Jiu Jitsu · Wolverhampton, West Midlands
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FaresZiam“Smile Killer”Kill Cliff FC · Venissieux
Lightweight3 rounds22 Jul 2023
14-6-1
Record
18-5
35
Age
−9 yr26
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+16
UFC bouts
5
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Renegade Jiu Jitsu
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
From
Venissieux
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
Jai Herbert14 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 24BODY43%6 of 9LEGS50%7 of 9
Fares Ziam20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 17BODY40%8 of 9LEGS20%4 of 6
14 of 42
Sig.
strikes
20 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:08
Control
0:34
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Herbert firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jai Herbert15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 28BODY73%11 of 14LEGS13%2 of 2
Fares Ziam20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 28BODY30%6 of 8LEGS10%2 of 2
15 of 44
Sig.
strikes
20 of 38
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:04
Control
0:16
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Herbert firstMichael Bell10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jai Herbert20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 27BODY30%6 of 8LEGS50%10 of 13
Fares Ziam21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 29BODY24%5 of 6LEGS33%7 of 8
20 of 48
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:00
Control
0:40
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Herbert firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Jai HerbertFares Ziam
Official totals — Jai Herbert first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Cezary Wojciechowski28–29

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 — 11 scored, Jai Herbert first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Bloody Elbow.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Dan Urban Couchside Judges28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ziam · 46%29-28 Herbert · 26%29-28 Ziam · 25%

57 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.

Jai Herbert

0.42takedowns / 15 min
0.42 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.73 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.32 / 15m
21%
ACCURACY
40%
0.00 / 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.

Jai Herbert↓ −11.4pp
open 52.0%close 40.6%
Fares Ziam↑ +11.4pp
open 48.0%close 59.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jai Herbert opened at 52.0% and closed at 40.6% (−11.4pp), 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
Jai Herbert-12513452.0%40.6%−11.4pp
Fares Ziam-105-16648.0%59.4%+11.4pp
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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