Tatiana Suarez received again within the win column at Noche UFC however she needed to survive a late comeback try from Amanda Lemos earlier than securing a unanimous resolution victory.
After arising brief in her bid to develop into strawweight champion earlier within the 12 months, Suarez caught to her grappling sport on Saturday night time and scored repeated takedowns to manage the vast majority of the combat. Lemos lastly fought off her wrestling late within the remaining spherical and unleashed a flurry of strikes that had Suarez rattled however she in the end ran out of time earlier than doing sufficient for a possible end.
Ultimately, all three judges scored the competition 29-28 for Suarez, who bounces again after falling to Zhang Weili in her earlier outing.
It was simply over a minute into the opening spherical when Suarez was in a position to shut the space and search for her first takedown, though Lemos defended successfully. Suarez continued urgent ahead and he or she lastly introduced the combat to the ground regardless of Lemos’ finest makes an attempt to cease her, which included grabbing the fence earlier than she received dumped on the bottom.
Lemos averted taking an excessive amount of injury earlier than getting a restart within the second spherical however Suarez was fast to assault along with her wrestling once more. Whereas Lemos continued enjoying protection, Suarez held onto the physique lock and chipped away with knees as she saved preventing till getting one other takedown.
From there, Suarez maintained place as she fought to doubtlessly arrange a guillotine choke however Lemos was in a position to break away earlier than working her method again to the toes. With Suarez holding onto her place, Lemos truly grabbed onto a choke of her personal however time ran out earlier than she might threaten the previous strawweight title challenger.
The relentless wrestling from Suarez continued and Lemos was caught simply making an attempt to fend off the takedowns. Whereas Suarez was in a position to finally get below the legs, decide Lemos up and slam her down once more, the Brazilian instantly scrambled out of the place and received again to her toes.
With a minute remaining, Suarez began operating out of gasoline and Lemos started cracking her with some stiff pictures. Lemos appeared to have Suarez harm however she simply couldn’t mount sufficient injury to cease the combat, which led to Suarez securing the choice win.
Whereas it most likely wasn’t the assertion win she wanted to probably name for an additional title shot, Suarez stays a prime contender within the division and now she’ll hold a detailed eye on the upcoming combat between Mackenzie Dern and Virna Jandiroba to find out a brand new strawweight champion after Zhang left the division to pursue a belt at flyweight.
