{"id":399238,"date":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399238\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","slug":"loopy-godinez-vs-tatiana-suarez-booked-for-aprils-ufc-327-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399238\/","title":{"rendered":"Loopy Godinez vs. Tatiana Suarez booked for April&#8217;s UFC 327 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 327 will see a high-stakes strawweight matchup between top contenders Loopy Godinez and Tatiana Saurez.<\/p>\n<p>The April 11 event, which is expected to take place at Kaseya Center in Miami (<a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a>) but has not been officially announced at this time, will feature a showdown between Godinez (14-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) and former title challenger Suarez (11-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Two people with knowledge of the situation verified the booking to MMA Junkie on Wednesday following an initial report from X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realkevink\/status\/2009088918499868687?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Krazy Kev;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Krazy Kev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Godinez, 32, is currently No. 7 in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/wstraw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:strawweight rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">strawweight rankings<\/a> and is coming off back-to-back decision victories over former champ Jessica Andrade and Julia Polastri.<\/p>\n<p>No. 4-ranked Suarez, 35, meanwhile, rebounded from a title fight loss to then-champ <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/zhang-weili\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Zhang Weili;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Zhang Weili<\/a> in February with a unanimous decision over Amanda Lemos at Noche UFC in September.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/07\/loopy-godinez-vs-tatiana-suarez-booked-april-ufc-327-event\/88076299007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Loopy Godinez vs. Tatiana Suarez booked for April&#039;s UFC 327 event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Loopy Godinez vs. Tatiana Suarez booked for April&#8217;s UFC 327 event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 327 will see a high-stakes strawweight matchup between top contenders Loopy Godinez and Tatiana Saurez. The April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,32454,32453,785,3169,85,212565,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-399238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-jessica-andrade","12":"tag-loopy-godinez","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-mma-junkie","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tatiana-saurez","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}