Tatiana Suarez has been out due to injuries for many years but the strawweight was riding a lot of hype before she was active. The UFC strawweight recently spoke about her return and revealed who she wants in a dream fight.
The strawweight has a wrestling-based game that has given many fighters problems amid her rise up the division. Tatiana Suarez matches up very well with just about anyone in the UFC's strawweight division.
“Before she retires, I want to fight Joanna,” Suarez said on The Schmozone Podcast. “I feel like that would be a good fight just because she has pretty good takedown defense and stuff, and obviously she’s a former champion. I think it’ll be a good fight, it’ll be fun, and I think they had mentioned that after my Nina Ansaroff fight. They’re like, ‘Oh, you know what would be a good fight is her vs. Joanna.'”
Valentina Shevchenko is also someone Tatiana Suarez wants to be matched up against in the future. However, Joanna Jedrzejczyk appears to be close to retiring from the UFC with her only planning a few more fights.
“I think she’ll retire first, so I want to fight her first,” Suarez said. “Because you know how she was gone for a while and then she came back. I don’t know. I just feel like if someone beats her, she’ll probably be like, ‘Ah.’ So I feel like I gotta get in there before she decides, ‘Ah, I don’t want to fight no more.’
“Valentina, I saw an interview where she was like, ‘I’m gonna do this until I’m 50.’ So I was like, OK, she’ll be around for a while. I could win the 115-pound division and then go up as soon as because I know she’s not just gonna be like, ‘Ah, I’m tired of fighting.'”
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