{"id":400797,"date":"2026-01-09T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:05:07","slug":"tatiana-suarez-faces-loopy-godinez-at-ufc-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400797\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatiana Suarez faces Loopy Godinez at UFC 327"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tatiana Suarez has another tough test in her battle back to a title shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Damon Martin confirmed with sources with knowledge of the matchup that Suarez (11-1) is set to take on Loopy Godinez (14-5) in a strawweight contender matchup at UFC 327, which takes place at Kaseya Center in Miami on April 11. The bout was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realkevink\/status\/2009088918499868687\" rel=\"nofollow\">Krazy Kev MMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For Suarez, this is her second fight since falling short against 115-pound champion Zhang Weili at UFC 312. She rebounded with a unanimous decision win over one-time title challenger Amanda Lemos in September and seeks to regain her No. 1 contender status after once being touted as the future of the division. Injuries have derailed much of Suarez\u2019s hype, with the 35-year-old competing just six times in the past seven years due to various health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Godinez is currently on a two-fight win streak with wins in five of her past seven fights. Most recently, she won a unanimous decision over former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade at UFC 319 in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 327 is yet to have a main event announced. A light heavyweight bout between Dominick Reyes and Johnny Walker has also been confirmed to be scheduled for the April 11 show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tatiana Suarez has another tough test in her battle back to a title shot. MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-400797","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400797","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=400797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}