It was a nasty evening for Tatiana Suarez at UFC 312.
Going into her first shot at UFC gold, the beforehand unbeaten Suarez was favored to return out on prime in her co-main occasion conflict with reigning strawweight queen Zhang Weili. Sadly for Suarez, it wasn’t meant to be. Regardless of her finest efforts, the Covina, California native surrendered a decisive unanimous determination victory to ‘Magnum’ after failing to unleash her wrestle-heavy assault all through the five-round affair.
Including insult to damage, Suarez suffered a nasty knee damage throughout a takedown try on the 4:21 mark of the second spherical. Suarez appeared to snag her knee the place the cage meets the canvas, leading to a gory gash opening up.
Tatiana Suarez reveals her stitched up knee following UFC 312
In between rounds, Suarez refused to take a look at the reduce however she could possibly be heard asking her nook how dangerous it seemed. Suarez’s crew did their finest to guarantee her that it wasn’t severe.
Because it seems, the damage was fairly severe. Not lengthy after releasing her first assertion following her disappointing loss in Australia, she provided followers a have a look at her freshly stitched knee.
Suarez’s loss to Zhang Weili was the primary of her profession, dropping her to 10-1 total and ending her decade-long run as an undefeated fighter.
As for Zhang, the Chinese language famous person efficiently defended her strawweight title for the third time throughout her present reign. General, it was her sixth profession title battle win within the division, tying her with Joanna Jędrzejczyk for most title battle wins in UFC strawweight division historical past.
After working her approach by a lot of the contender’s record at 115, a conflict with reigning flyweight queen Valentina Shevchenko could possibly be in Zhang’s future.
