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Tatiana Suarez Confident She’d Beat Zhang Weili: “My Grappling Is Very Good”

Tatiana Suarez Confident She’d Beat Zhang Weili: “My Grappling Is Very Good”

UFC strawweight contender Tatiana Suarez is confident in her ability to challenge and potentially dethrone current champion Zhang Weili…
Among other things, because of her superb grappling skillset.

Suarez recently emphasized her desire to test herself against the champion:

I’m really excited to fight Weili when given the opportunity because she’s had a couple of dominant performances, and I really want to test myself.

She is confident that she has the proper (grappling) skillset to beat Weili:

She [Weili, in her most recent fight] was able to capitalize like I knew she would.

I knew she would win in the grappling department just because Yan is just not good at all on the ground.
I have nothing against her but she’s – I mean she’s a phenomenal striker, but she’s not good on the ground at all.

So I knew that Weili would be able to outgrapple her, and Yan not being a wrestler, actually got a couple of takedowns if I can remember.
She didn’t mean to [get the takedowns]. I think they just engaged and she threw her to the ground or something.

Just seeing that just shows me that I think I could impose my will against her, and my grappling is very, very good.
I think I’d do well just like I’ve always known.

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