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History · 2021 · UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Fares Ziam vs Luigi Vendramini
From the tape · 12 Jun 2021

Fares Ziam vs Luigi Vendramini

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Fares Ziam beat Luigi Vendramini

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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 · Born in Vénissieux, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France · Fights out of Lyon, France
VSOn the tape
LV
Blue corner LuigiVendramini“The Italian Stallion”Factory X · Born in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Lightweight3 rounds12 Jun 2021
The story going in
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Vendramini.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Ziam.
18-6
Record
9-3
−1 yr24
Age
25
+5″6' 1"
Height
5' 8"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Factory X
Vénissieux, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Born in
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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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 Ziam14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 37BODY14%2 of 2LEGS21%3 of 3
Luigi Vendramini7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 19BODY43%3 of 4LEGS14%1 of 3
14 of 42
Sig.
strikes
7 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ziam firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Flores10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Fares Ziam18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 54BODY17%3 of 3LEGS22%4 of 4
Luigi Vendramini10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 23BODY40%4 of 6LEGS30%3 of 3
18 of 61
Sig.
strikes
10 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:08
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ziam firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Flores10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Fares Ziam7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 15BODY43%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Luigi Vendramini17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 31BODY24%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
17 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:01
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 5
Judges · this round · Ziam firstDerek Cleary8–10Chris Flores9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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

Majority Decision

Referee · Mike Beltran
Fares ZiamLuigi Vendramini
Official totals — Fares Ziam first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–28
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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 — 14 scored, Fares Ziam first · unofficial

Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ziam · 42%29-28 Vendramini · 4%28-26 Ziam · 1%30-27 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.

Fares Ziam

1.84takedowns / 15 min
1.84 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.11 / 15m
4.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.40 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
15%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Luigi Vendramini

1.11takedowns / 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 (5.19 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.

Fares Ziam↑ +2.4pp
open 47.8%close 50.2%
Luigi Vendramini↓ −2.4pp
open 52.2%close 49.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Fares Ziam opened at 47.8% and closed at 50.2% (+2.4pp), with Luigi Vendramini 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 Ziam100-11147.8%50.2%+2.4pp
Luigi Vendramini-120-10952.2%49.8%−2.4pp
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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