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Events · UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen · Tim Means vs Max Griffin
From the tape · 29 Oct 2022

Tim Means vs Max Griffin

UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Allen · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Max Griffin beat Tim Means

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
Welterweight3 rounds29 Oct 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 25 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Griffin.
33-17-1
Record
20-13
38
Age
−2 yr36
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1225
UFC bouts
13
7/1450% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
Fit NHB
Gym
MMA Gold Fight Team
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Sacramento, California
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⚡ 1 KD Griffin
Tim Means17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 27BODY18%3 of 14LEGS35%6 of 8
Max Griffin25 sig landed
HEAD64%16 of 29BODY28%7 of 9LEGS8%2 of 4
17 of 49
Sig.
strikes
25 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:26
Control
0:54
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Means firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tim Means20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 32BODY40%8 of 15LEGS25%5 of 6
Max Griffin13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 16BODY15%2 of 6LEGS46%6 of 7
20 of 53
Sig.
strikes
13 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:35
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Means firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tim Means10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 5BODY70%7 of 7LEGS0%0 of 1
Max Griffin4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 13
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
3 of 5
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:01
Control
3:44
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Means firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Tim MeansMax Griffin
Official totals — Tim Means first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Eric Colón2.0 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 — 12 scored, Tim Means first · unofficial

Noah Gagnon Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Alex Behunin Cageside Press28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Dan Urban Couchside Judges28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Griffin · 39%30-27 Griffin · 32%29-28 Means · 25%

80 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
1.44 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
41%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Max Griffin

1.44takedowns / 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↓ −4.9pp
open 42.0%close 37.1%
Max Griffin↑ +4.9pp
open 58.0%close 62.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tim Means opened at 42.0% and closed at 37.1% (−4.9pp), with Max Griffin 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 Means13015842.0%37.1%−4.9pp
Max Griffin-150-19258.0%62.9%+4.9pp
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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