I'm not sure I've Ever Disliked a Fighter More than Fares Ziam

I was shocked to see Davis pull guard.felt like that was very bad fight iq
 
EndlessCritic said:
Fares Ziam currently finds himself on a 5 fight win streak, after an unimpressive 2-2 start to his UFC career.

He looked awful his first 4 UFC fights, which included a robbery win over Mullarkey, and barely surviving a third round beating against Vendramini.

So why do I dislike the guy? He seems to beat guys and win on pure defense.

For reasons unclear, everyone tries to fight him on the ground. And simply be virtue of being a sound defensive fighter, he is generally able to fend off his opponents' aggression, wind up on top, and steal rounds.

What makes it all so baffling is he's shown almost zero power on his feet at range. I'm not sure he's hurt a single opponent with a standing punch in the UFC. Yet a guy like Mike Davis apparently felt it was a good strategy to pull guard at the start of round 1, rather than try to box.

Why is everyone so desperate to take this guy down, when he keeps shutting everyone down?

The kicker? I literally had money on Ziam yesterday. And I'm still pissed off watching guys lose to him.
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Huh... did you watch the Frevola fight? He did a lot offensively, and got a contender for KO of the year.

Ziam has made good progress and his striking is cool to watch, not his fauly if Davis made it a shitty fight.
 
What about Strickland? or the guy that beats Shogun and does a dumb celebration dance?
 
The_Renaissance said:
I quietly like Ziam he's amounted to way more than I initially expected. He's a solid LW.
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Same, I did not expect him to make it far, I only saw a skilled but overly cautious point striker with no TDD and OK-ish BJJ.
But his last 3 fights have changed my mind, his TDD is a whole new level and he is way more impactful offensively.

He is from my hometown (first and only in the UFC) so I'm totally biased here.
 
Ziam is a weird looking guy but he got the crazy knee KO on Frevola and this Davis fight was a bloody war so overall I gotta see more from him

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spinup said:
Same, I did not expect him to make it far, I only saw a skilled but overly cautious point striker with no TDD and OK-ish BJJ.
But his last 3 fights have changed my mind, his TDD is a whole new level and he is way more impactful offensively.

He is from my hometown (first and only in the UFC) so I'm totally biased here.
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I think he's solid as fuck. Good striker ad much improved grappling. A nightmare for most of the division
 
Weird dislike
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Of all the fighters from conor to bryce to dickland to kevin holland to chael to Cody Coldsore to thin jizzrael, you pick this guy?
 
EndlessCritic said:
For reasons unclear, everyone tries to fight him on the ground. And simply be virtue of being a sound defensive fighter, he is generally able to fend off his opponents' aggression, wind up on top, and steal rounds.

What makes it all so baffling is he's shown almost zero power on his feet at range. I'm not sure he's hurt a single opponent with a standing punch in the UFC. Yet a guy like Mike Davis apparently felt it was a good strategy to pull guard at the start of round 1, rather than try to box.
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Reasons unclear ? Wtf mate...

Ziam is a very good striker with pretty good wrestling. His main weakness is his ground game. That's why everyone tries to fight him on the ground.

And please stop with this "zero power" BS. Damage accumulation is a thing, and when you get hit and can't hit back, you sure as hell better have a plan B.
 
i saw him fight for the first time. or maybe i saw him before and didnt remember but last night i thought he looked really good.
he has fast and sharp hands. he was not afraid to go to the ground and delivered some brutal ground and pound. he even lifted his opponent up and walked him to the center of the cage and slammed him.

when I saw the thread title I thought you were gonna drop some very bad info about him. nothing of the sorts....seems to me you are looking for reasons to dislike him and cant really find something.
'he is winning 5 times in a row but not in the way that I would consider it to be legit'

you are reaching and sound like a hater
 
Do you hate him to the point where you want to see him get hit by car? I've felt that way about several fighters <lol>
 
He's too skinny and pillow fisted for this division, should drop to FW. He keeps proving me wrong, good luck to him.
 
EndlessCritic said:
Merab is 100% offense in imposing his own gameplan. He is so offensive that he does not even need to play defense. His opponents are so busy trying to defend against him, they are not able to offensively do anything.

Merab shuts his opponents down with pure offense. Ziam successfully defends against his opponent's attacks.

They are complete and polar opposites.
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Is he 100% offense? Every fight goes to decision so his Offense is certainly not fight ending offense but rather designed to make his opponents defend TDs chained one after another with a few wild punches. He also takes a lot of hard shots but manages to get thru and as the fight gets later on his opponents tire out. That is his game plan. He shuts down his opponents game plan by exhausting them. He outlasts his opponents as evidenced by watching any of his fights. Never was it said they are identical, at least not by me.
 
The guy seems to be coming into his own and has a decent win streak at 155 and TS wants to hate lol.
 
Mike Davis's teammate, McKinney, submitted Ziam on the ground in about 1 minute. That's why the team came up with this weird game plan of pulling guard and staying there looking for submissions.
The real issue is that they didn't have any alternative plan and tried it for three rounds
 
Meh, there are worse & more frustrating fighters to get annoyed over.
 
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