Built from Tim Means’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 2" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Welterweight. 15 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 7 decision. Top 11% of Welterweights: lands 5.04 significant strikes a minute and avoids 60% of the strikes thrown at him.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. 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. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | The Dirty Bird |
| Nationality | United States |
| Born in | Wilburton, Oklahoma, United States Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | Fit NHB |
| Height | 6' 2" |
| Reach | 75" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | Feb 20, 1984 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 33-17-1 |
| UFC record | UFC 15-14 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2012-02-15 · last fight 2024-10-05 |
| Finish split | 15 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 7 decision |
| Social |
Career averages over Tim Means’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
We have not called one of Tim Means’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Tim Means’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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.
Pro record: 33-17-1. In the UFC: 15-14-1. Tim Means’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 1 Performance of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-23 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Andre Fialho | UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot |
| 2015-02-28 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Dhiego Lima | UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano |
The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.
Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-05 | L | Court McGee | Submission | R1 | UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. |
| 2024-04-27 | L | Uros Medic | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez |
| 2023-09-23 | W | Andre Fialho | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot |
| 2023-05-13 | L | Alex Morono | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida |
| 2022-10-29 | L | Max Griffin | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen |
| 2022-06-18 | L | Kevin Holland | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Emmett |
| 2021-06-26 | W | Nicolas Dalby | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov |
| 2020-11-21 | W | Mike Perry | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez |
| 2020-08-08 | W | Laureano Staropoli | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik |
| 2020-02-15 | L | Daniel Rodriguez | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz |
| 2019-12-07 | W | Thiago Alves | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik |
| 2019-03-09 | L | Niko Price | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos |
| 2018-11-30 | W | Ricky Rainey | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale |
| 2018-02-03 | L | Sergio Moraes | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders |
| 2017-11-18 | L | Belal Muhammad | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura |
| 2017-06-25 | W | Alex Garcia | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee |
| 2017-03-11 | L | Alex Oliveira | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum |
| 2016-12-30 | D | Alex Oliveira | Could not continue | R1 | UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey |
| 2016-08-20 | W | Sabah Homasi | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 |
| 2015-12-10 | W | John Howard | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant |
| 2015-07-11 | L | Matt Brown | Submission | R1 | UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor |
| 2015-04-18 | W | George Sullivan | Submission | R3 | UFC on FOX: Machida vs Rockhold |
| 2015-02-28 | W | Dhiego Lima | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano |
| 2014-12-20 | W | Marcio Alexandre Junior | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Dollaway |
| 2014-07-26 | W | Hernani Perpetuo | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown |
| 2014-05-10 | L | Neil Magny | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva |
| 2013-07-27 | L | Danny Castillo | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga |
| 2013-04-20 | L | Jorge Masvidal | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez |
| 2012-06-08 | W | Justin Salas | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall |
| 2012-02-15 | W | Bernardo Magalhaes | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs Ellenberger |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
The 19 cities Tim Means has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.
