![]() Suarez has had her share of challenges in training. It’s about competition, testing myself – that’s the stuff that I thrive on. It’s not about wins, losses, nothing like that. Or even if I don’t beat them, I still shared the cage with an amazing mixed martial artist. “I wanna fight the best people, because obviously that means that I’m the best when I beat them. “I’m thinking, ‘Well, I want to fight the best of the best,’” she said. Namajunas and her longtime partner and corner Pat Barry were widely criticized for their fight strategy in a bout very light on action over 25 minutes, though she said she was satisfied with her performance.įor Suarez, the desire to face Namajunas hasn’t dimmed. Namajunas’ move to flyweight comes more than one year after after she lost the strawweight title to Carla Esparza in a rematch of a 2014 meeting for the inaugural title that Esparza won. Like, I’ll watch her and I’m like, amazed because how great she is.” “Whenever I say I want to fight her, it’s not because I want to go beat her up, or something like that, I don’t like her. I wouldn’t even say that if I thought that. “I think she totally dodged me,” she laughed. Because I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m back to 115 – maybe I could fight Rose,’ and it’s like, she’s going back to 125. “It’s really the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” Suarez said on The MMA Hour. Around the same time, Suarez announced her move back to strawweight after returning from a long injury layoff to compete at 125 pounds. Suarez’s dream to challenge the two-time UFC strawweight title took a hit recently with a report of Namajunas’ move up to the flyweight division to face Manon Fiorot at UFC Paris in September. Tatiana Suarez has no grudge against Rose Namajunas, but she wants to test herself against the best UFC fighters in the world.
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