Tim Means Addresses His Problems With the MMA Media After UFC 207 No Contest

Speaking to reporters in a post-fight media scrum (via MMAjunkie), UFC welterweight fighter Tim Means discussed his fight with Alex Oliveira at UFC 207. The fight was ruled a No Contest after it was stopped when Means hit Oliveira with multiple illegal knees while Oliveira was still grounded. Below are some highlights from the scrum.

Means on how the fight ended: “I didn’t come to break some rules. I came to win violently.”

Means taking the media to task: “It’s easy for the media to sit there and write and type and take all this work – we bust our ass, and I’m talking about all of the fighters. We bust our ass. And the five minutes or two minutes or 45 seconds or whatever we’re in there for, you guys break it down and tear us down in just a couple seconds. We just bust our ass to get in there for you guys to have a story to write and for everyone here to have a job. I have a job. The bosses have a job. And you guys tear us down in a matter of seconds. We’ve worked weeks and months – we’ve worked through the holidays – for you to sit there and pretty much degrade us and put us down. We bust our ass, and we look for respect. We want some respect. The fighters work their ass off for you guys to put so little of an effort to a write-up to tear down their work.”