Fares Ziam
“Smile Killer”
Fares Ziam is ranked 83rd of 506 lightweights by the First Light Rating.
- FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill
- 1,86783rd of 506 · Lightweight
- FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
- +0.56Fame ahead of skill
- Career phase
- PrimeCareer-best FLR 1,898, 6 Dec 2025
- Record
- 18–6Pro
Fame against skill.
Every fighter with an FLI, by skill and fame. Hover a dot for the fighter; click to open their page. The dashed curve is the fame their skill predicts: above it, a fighter is more famous than their skill; below it, better than their fame.
Skill and attention.
Attention is drawn at the skill level its fame matches: above the skill line, more famous than skilled. Shaded: 2,000 careers simulated from today, fight by fight; the dashed line is the middle one.
Recent fights.
| Date | Fight | FLR | FLI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Sept 2026 | Lost to Axel SolaUFC Fight Night 287 - Hooker vs. Parnasse · KO (Punch) | −17 | +0.04 |
| 6 Jun 2026 | Lost to Tom NolanUFC Fight Night 278 - Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | −12 | — |
| 6 Dec 2025 | Won vs Nazim SadykhovUFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · TKO (Elbows and Punches), R2 | +26 | — |
| 1 Feb 2025 | Won vs Mike DavisUFC Fight Night 250 - Adesanya vs. Imavov · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +36 | — |
| 28 Sept 2024 | Won vs Matt FrevolaUFC Fight Night 243 - Moicano vs. St. Denis · KO (Knee), R3 | +33 | — |
| 24 Feb 2024 | Won vs Claudio PuellesUFC Fight Night 237 - Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Decision (Split), R3 | +16 | — |
| 22 Jul 2023 | Won vs Jai HerbertUFC Fight Night 224 - Aspinall vs. Tybura · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +33 | — |
| 3 Sept 2022 | Won vs Michal FiglakUFC Fight Night 209 - Gane vs. Tuivasa · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +33 | — |
| 26 Feb 2022 | Lost to Terrance McKinneyUFC Fight Night 202 - Makhachev vs. Green · Submission (Rear-Naked Choke), R1 | −32 | — |
| 12 Jun 2021 | Won vs Luigi VendraminiUFC 263 - Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Decision (Majority), R3 | +26 | — |
| 17 Oct 2020 | Won vs Jamie MullarkeyUFC Fight Night 180 - Ortega vs. Korean Zombie · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +17 | — |
| 7 Sept 2019 | Lost to Don MadgeUFC 242 - Khabib vs. Poirier · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | −30 | — |
FLR is what the fight did to their First Light Rating: the true measure of skill.
FLI is what the fight did to their First Light Index: the rating of fame against skill.
How it is measured.
Data Credit: First Light Observatory.
How these numbers are made.
First Light may hold interests in athletes covered by the Index.