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Events · UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov · Fares Ziam vs Mike Davis
From the tape · 1 Feb 2025

Fares Ziam vs Mike Davis

UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov · Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Result

Fares Ziam beat Mike Davis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 MikeDavis
Lightweight3 rounds1 Feb 2025
The register carries nothing we can compare on both sides for this bout, so no ladder is drawn.

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 Ziam16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 20BODY19%3 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Mike Davis8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 8BODY50%4 of 5LEGS12%1 of 2
16 of 24
Sig.
strikes
8 of 15
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:23
Control
1:34
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Ziam firstSal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Fares Ziam10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 16BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Mike Davis6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 7BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
6 of 8
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:31
Control
1:38
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ziam firstSal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Fares Ziam9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mike Davis6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
9 of 14
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:17
Control
0:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Ziam firstSal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens 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 · Chris Tognoni
Fares ZiamMike Davis
Official totals — Fares Ziam first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
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 — 12 scored, Fares Ziam first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Combat Press.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ziam · 62%29-28 Ziam · 26%29-28 Davis · 5%30-26 Ziam · 3%30-28 Ziam · 2%

58 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

Fares Ziam

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.73takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.73 landed per 15 minutes — −0.40 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS50
1.73 / 15m−0.40 vs field
ATTEMPTS49
4.32 / 15m−1.08 vs field
ACCURACY57
40%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT35
0.50 / 15m−0.80 vs field

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.

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.

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↑ +11.7pp
open 31.2%close 42.9%
Mike Davis↓ −11.7pp
open 68.8%close 57.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Fares Ziam opened at 31.2% and closed at 42.9% (+11.7pp), with Mike Davis 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 Ziam20012231.2%42.9%+11.7pp
Mike Davis-275-14968.8%57.1%−11.7pp
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 2026-07-18. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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