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Events · UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Claudio Puelles vs Fares Ziam
From the tape · 24 Feb 2024

Claudio Puelles vs Fares Ziam

UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Result

Fares Ziam beat Claudio Puelles

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 ClaudioPuelles“Prince of Peru”Kill Cliff FC · Molina
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FaresZiam“Smile Killer”Kill Cliff FC · Venissieux
Lightweight3 rounds24 Feb 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ziam.
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than Puelles.
13-5
Record
18-5
27
Age
−1 yr26
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+17
UFC bouts
6
+60%3/560% of wins
Finishes
0/40% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Molina
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
Claudio Puelles2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Fares Ziam9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 15BODY0%0 of 1LEGS11%1 of 1
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
9 of 17
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:21
Control
0:38
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Puelles firstMichael Bell9–10Chris Lee9–10Raul Salas10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Claudio Puelles0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

Fares Ziam14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 16BODY21%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
0 of 3
Sig.
strikes
14 of 20
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
2:06
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 12
Judges · this round · Puelles firstMichael Bell9–10Chris Lee10–9Raul Salas9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Claudio Puelles2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Fares Ziam8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 7BODY38%3 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
2 of 2
Sig.
strikes
8 of 11
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:14
Control
1:46
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 6
Judges · this round · Puelles firstMichael Bell9–10Chris Lee9–10Raul Salas10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Claudio PuellesFares Ziam
Official totals — Claudio Puelles first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Raul Salas29–28

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 — 12 scored, Claudio Puelles first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks27–30
Bloody Elbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ziam · 57%29-28 Ziam · 37%29-28 Puelles · 2%30-27 Puelles · 2%30-28 Ziam · 1%

83 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.

Claudio Puelles

3.29takedowns / 15 min
3.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.73 / 15m
9.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.32 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
40%
1.00 / 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.

Claudio Puelles↓ −10.6pp
open 45.7%close 35.1%
Fares Ziam↑ +10.6pp
open 54.3%close 64.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Claudio Puelles opened at 45.7% and closed at 35.1% (−10.6pp), 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
Claudio Puelles11017245.7%35.1%−10.6pp
Fares Ziam-130-21254.3%64.9%+10.6pp
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% · dated 2024-02-25 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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