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Events · UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov · Tim Means vs Nicolas Dalby
From the tape · 26 Jun 2021

Tim Means vs Nicolas Dalby

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tim Means beat Nicolas Dalby

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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
ND
Blue corner NicolasDalby“Danish Dynamite”Rumble Sports · Copenhagen
Welterweight3 rounds26 Jun 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 13 UFC wins.
33-17-1
Record
24-6-1
37
Age
−1 yr36
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1623
UFC bouts
7
+54%7/1354% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Fit NHB
Gym
Rumble Sports
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Copenhagen
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 Means15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 16BODY47%7 of 8LEGS13%2 of 2
Nicolas Dalby11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 16BODY9%1 of 2LEGS18%2 of 2
15 of 26
Sig.
strikes
11 of 20
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:07
Control
0:09
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstMichael Bell10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tim Means29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 30BODY52%15 of 16LEGS7%2 of 3
Nicolas Dalby24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 49BODY21%5 of 9LEGS8%2 of 2
29 of 49
Sig.
strikes
24 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:45
Control
0:17
Distance 18Clinch 9Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstMichael Bell10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tim Means9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 9BODY78%7 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Nicolas Dalby19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 28BODY37%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
19 of 36
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:11
Control
1:05
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Tim MeansNicolas Dalby
Official totals — Tim Means first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 15 scored, Tim Means first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
John Brannigan Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Means · 81%29-28 Dalby · 9%30-27 Means · 6%30-28 Means · 3%

32 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
0.90 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.46 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
26%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Nicolas Dalby

0.90takedowns / 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 64.3%close 63.6%
Nicolas Dalby↑ +0.6pp
open 35.7%close 36.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tim Means opened at 64.3% and closed at 63.6% (−0.6pp), with Nicolas Dalby 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-200-20664.3%63.6%−0.6pp
Nicolas Dalby17016035.7%36.4%+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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