Tim Means ‘was a little more emotional’ at UFC 202 due to recent troubles

Tim Means stepped inside the cage at UFC 202 last weekend and put a halt to newcomer Sabah Homasi’s career advancements with a brutal second-round TKO. That was far from the biggest battle Means has had to endure over the past eight months, however.

Means recently went through the process of gaining the custody of his daughters, which included several trips to court; a tainted supplement fiasco with USADA and a six-month suspension; subsequently being pulled from a main event fight opposite Donald Cerrone; and putting down his two dogs, as well.

Let’s just say Tim Means has been through quite a bit.

Despite everything he went through earlier this year, Means felt no extra pressure to perform well in his Octagon return but did feel more emotional going into the bout.

“It just really played out,” Means told BloodyElbow’s The MMA Circus podcast. “I just had to kick back, be patient, work another job for a little bit, keep my brain sharpened in another job type, I guess, because I was looking at a two-year suspension at that time. So there was a lot of things going on.

“Training and preparing for a fist fight helped keep everything calm. It just played out the way it did. I was a little more emotional, I guess — angry — because of those reasons. But I was able to calm down and make …

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