Tatiana Suarez Is Relishing The Challenge

After years of injury and adversity, Tatiana Suarez is back to full fitness, back to her best, and back to make another run towards the undisputed women’s strawweight title. Suarez battled her way back to fitness to earn a shot at then-champion Zhang Weili back in February 2025, but the matchup at UFC 312 didn’t go her way as, hampered by a nasty cut on her knee, she battled to the distance only to lose out on the scorecards.

While she refused to use the injury as any kind of excuse for her defeat that night, she did reveal it was a tricky one to heal up from.

“Oh, I just had to not be on it for a while,” she explained. “I couldn't bend my knee.