By James Lynch

Tim Means is known to fight fans as one of the most exciting and aggressive fighters inside the UFC Octagon. However, now he is putting his skills to the test for an outside-the-cage battle. 

"The Dirty Bird" is taking on the supplement company that played a major role in his six-month USADA suspension last year. Means was flagged for the substance ostarine — the same supplement that caused Lyman Good to fail a test in November 2016. 

The news came to Means shortly before his scheduled UFC Fight Night 83 main event showdown against Donald Cerrone in February 2016, forcing Means out of that bout. 

Now, the situation has led to legal action. 

Means, who faces Belal Muhammed at UFC Fight Night 121 on Nov. 18 in Sydney, recently spoke to Harry Davies of MMA Latest and didn't hold back on trying to shut down the supplement company that did him wrong. 

"As soon as I got my suspension, my lawyer [Howard Jacobs] immediately filed a lawsuit against the two companies," Means said. "Jeff Novitzky asked me if I had taken ostarine, I hadn’t heard of that stuff until I got suspended. I opened that letter two weeks out of my main event. It was a real kick in the balls.

"For legal reasons I can’t name the companies until everything’s pen to paper. But I want to absolutely bankrupt that company, I don’t know if there’s any money coming out of it, but I’m going to put them on blast. I’m going to shut that company down when I get the opportunity. The USADA guys really had to dig deep to find the product, but they completely pulled that product of[f] the shelves which was a big red flag that they were in fact hiding something. You ingest this product and it freaks you out because nothing meets the nutritional labels after they test it.”