Round 1⚡ 1 KD SolaEnded 1:40
9 of 13
Sig.
strikes
strikes
7 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
VSSettled
Blue corner
FaresZiam“Smile Killer”Kill Cliff FC · Born in Vénissieux, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France · Fights out of Lyon, France
The story going in
- Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Ziam.
- Has finished 2 of 8 UFC wins.
- 11 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Sola.
13-1-1
Record
18-6
−1 yr28
Age
29
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+811
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
2/825% of wins
Boxing Squad
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
France
From
Lyon, Francefights out of
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.
The call vs the fight
What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.
Our call
Fares Ziam
65.2% confidentMED
The fight
Axel Sola
LOSS✗
Graded against the official UFC result, from
the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict
is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads
as one. See the full public record →
Round by round
Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
UFCStats · per round
1 round of tape
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.
How it ended
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Won inside the distance
Axel Sola
Round
1
Clock
1:40
Method
KO/TKO
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.
Takedowns
Takedowns
The level change — head to head
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Axel Sola
1.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.84 / 15m
4.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.38 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
42%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m
66%
TD DEFENCE
70%
Fares Ziam
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 (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Ranked in Lightweight
The market story
What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.
Axel SolaFares ZiamPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Fares Ziam's implied chance moved up from 57% to 60% (+2.5pp).
This series stops at Sep 05 21:21Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.
Our published call had Fares Ziam at 65.2%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 59.5% — our number sat 5.7pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.
Show the numbers
| Series | Open | Low | High | Last pre-fight | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axel Sola — sportsbook consensus | 43.7% | 40.7% | 43.7% | 40.8% | −2.9pp |
| Fares Ziam — sportsbook consensus | 56.3% | 56.3% | 59.3% | 59.2% | +2.9pp |
| Axel Sola — Polymarket | 43.0% | 39.5% | 43.0% | 40.5% | −2.5pp |
| Fares Ziam — Polymarket | 57.0% | 57.0% | 60.5% | 59.5% | +2.5pp |
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,667 snapshots on file · window Aug 26 04:18–Sep 05 21:11Z · last capture Sep 05, 21:11Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.