Former Ufc Star Known As ‘dirty Bird’ Punched And Headbutted Teen Daughter During Argument Over Chores, Police Say

A erstwhile UFC combatant successful New Mexico is facing charges aft constabulary opportunity he punched his 17-year-old girl successful nan look and headbutted her during an statement complete family chores.

Tim Means, 42, was taken into custody aft nan April 21 incident and charged pinch a felony count of kid abuse. He was booked into nan Metropolitan Detention Center connected Wednesday and released Friday, according to tribunal records.

Deputies pinch nan Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office responded to a location connected Camino De Avila successful Tijeras aft a study of a beingness altercation, according to a criminal title obtained by The Albuquerque Journal.

When they arrived, Means’s teenage girl told constabulary she had been arguing pinch her begetter astir chores erstwhile he allegedly headbutted her successful nan nose.

She told constabulary that Means continued to get successful her face, truthful she pushed him away, according to nan complaint. The 2 ended up successful nan kitchen, wherever Means allegedly grabbed nan teen by her cervix successful a “strangulating manner” and held her against nan counter.

The teen said Means past grabbed a murphy and threw it astatine her face. She said she began pushing and punching him successful an effort to get free.

As she was trying to stitchery her belongings to leave, she said that’s erstwhile Means punched her connected nan correct broadside of her look pinch a closed fist, according to nan complaint.

“Let it beryllium known that location were visible manus and reddish marks connected (the teen’s) neck, indicating she was strangled,” nan title states.

“There was humor connected and successful her chemoreceptor wherever she was head-butted and respective reddish marks indicated she was deed successful nan look and connected her cheek.”

Means, known arsenic “Dirty Bird,” has fought professionally since 2004, but mislaid 5 of his astir caller fights and has not fought since October 2024.

He was antecedently released by nan UFC successful 2013 aft repeated failures to make weight, but returned nan pursuing twelvemonth and continued competing successful nan welterweight division.

In 2016, he was suspended aft testing affirmative for a banned substance, but he was reinstated six months later aft nan consequence was attributed to a tainted supplement.