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Events · UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura · Tim Means vs Belal Muhammad
From the tape · 18 Nov 2017

Tim Means vs Belal Muhammad

UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Belal Muhammad beat Tim Means

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Steve Perceval

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 TimMeans“The Dirty Bird”Fit NHB · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BelalMuhammad“Remember the Name”Roufusport · Chicago, Illinois
Welterweight3 rounds18 Nov 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Muhammad.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Means.
33-17-1
Record
24-6
33
Age
−4 yr29
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1015
UFC bouts
5
+22%5/956% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Fit NHB
Gym
Roufusport
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Chicago, Illinois
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. 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.

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
Tim Means20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 52BODY40%8 of 15LEGS10%2 of 3
Belal Muhammad31 sig landed
HEAD77%24 of 69BODY13%4 of 6LEGS10%3 of 3
20 of 70
Sig.
strikes
31 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstEvan Field9–10Charlie Keech9–10Kevin Manderson10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tim Means34 sig landed
HEAD53%18 of 53BODY24%8 of 9LEGS24%8 of 8
Belal Muhammad22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 47BODY18%4 of 6LEGS9%2 of 2
34 of 70
Sig.
strikes
22 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:21
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstEvan Field10–9Charlie Keech10–9Kevin Manderson9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tim Means37 sig landed
HEAD57%21 of 73BODY35%13 of 18LEGS8%3 of 3
Belal Muhammad35 sig landed
HEAD91%32 of 83BODY6%2 of 4LEGS3%1 of 1
37 of 94
Sig.
strikes
35 of 88
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstEvan Field9–10Charlie Keech10–9Kevin Manderson9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Steve Perceval
Tim MeansBelal Muhammad
Official totals — Tim Means first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide28–29
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Kevin Manderson28–29

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 — 15 scored, Tim Means first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Simon Head thesun.co.uk28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Muhammad · 56%29-28 Means · 24%30-27 Muhammad · 2%30-28 Muhammad · 2%

50 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.

Tim Means

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.14 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
36%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Belal Muhammad

2.14takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Tim Means↑ +0.6pp
open 65.3%close 65.9%
Belal Muhammad↓ −0.6pp
open 34.7%close 34.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tim Means opened at 65.3% and closed at 65.9% (+0.6pp), with Belal Muhammad 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
Tim Means-230-21765.3%65.9%+0.6pp
Belal Muhammad17018234.7%34.1%−0.6pp
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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