The long-awaited return for Ultimate Fighting Championship contender
Tatiana
Suarez is true across the nook.
On Monday, Sherdog realized from sources that Suarez (8-0) can be
getting back from a virtually four-year layoff to tackle Montana
De La Rosa (12-7-1) in February. Suarez, a strawweight
contender earlier than harm stored her on the shelf from mid-2019 via
2022, shall be transferring to 125 kilos for this matchup. De La Rosa
confirmed Friday on her OnlyFans web page that this
combat was official for the Feb. 25 card of
UFC Fight Night 220. She subsequently introduced this on her
Instagram Stories not lengthy after the information broke.
Suarez received Season 23 of “The Final Fighter” by submitting
J.J.
Aldrich, Kate
Jackson and Amanda
Bobby Brundage to run via the truth present. After getting
her “six-figure contract,” she strung collectively 4 wins over
Viviane
Pereira, Alexa
Grasso, former and future champ Carla
Esparza and Nina Nunes.
This shall be Suarez’ first look at flyweight since her
three-fight stint in Gladiator Problem from 2014 to 2015. A
severe neck harm pressured her to get well for fairly a while, and
she needed to withdraw from a slated 2021 outing in opposition to Roxanne
Modafferi on account of harm as properly. Along with therapeutic, Suarez
appeared on the sixteenth season of “The Bachelorette,” the place she
coached the bachelors in wrestling forward of a contest for the
males vying for the bachelorette’s affection.
De La Rosa has seen her ups and downs since popping out of the twenty sixth
season of TUF as an unsuccessful quarterfinalist. With a document of
5-3-1 within the Octagon to this point, 4 of these 5 victories have
come by stoppage, together with a knockout of Ariane
Lipski and a submission of Rachael
Ostovich as she traversed the flyweight division. De La Rosa
has not been completed within the UFC, with determination setbacks to
Andrea
Lee, Viviane
Araujo, and most lately, Maycee
Barber in April 2022. Since Suarez has been away, De La Rosa
stepped into the Octagon six occasions.
The aforementioned Suarez is not going to be the one fighter coming again
from an extended absence at this combat card. Courtesy of a narrative from
MMA Junkie on Friday, Alex Reyes
(13-3) shall be rejoining the ranks of the UFC for the primary time
since 2017. The one-time welterweight – who took the combat on quick
discover up a weight class – debuted in opposition to Mike Perry
at UFC Struggle Night time 116, and he succumbed to a knockout in 79
seconds that evening. An sickness that threatened his means to stroll
stored him sidelined as he recovered, and he has healed up and can
be squaring off in opposition to Trevor Peek
(7-0) within the light-weight division. Moreover, Jose
Johnson (15-7) will tackle Garrett
Armfield (8-3) at bantamweight, with information of that pairing first
coming from Eurosport
NL additionally on Friday.
UFC Struggle Night time 220 goes down on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Feb.
25, with 205-pounders Nikita
Krylov and Ryan Spann
battling it out for a top-10 spot in the primary occasion. The probably
co-headliner will see Andre Muniz
face Brendan
Allen, however the lineup just isn’t but official and Suarez-De La Rosa
might earn excessive billing. Different fights on the cardboard embrace a
featherweight conflict between Andre Fili
and Lucas
Almeida, and a 135-pound tussle as Hailey
Cowan debuts in opposition to Ailin
Perez.
