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Many fans were utterly bothered by Tatiana Suarez getting placed at the prelim slot on UFC Fight Night 259, AKA Noche UFC 3. But she wasn’t one of them. This weekend’s Fight Night card, live from Frost Bank Center, San Antonio, TX., sees her lock horns with Amanda Lemos.
Once the ASICs National High School WOTY and often tagged as ‘Female Khabib,’ Tatiana Suarez is one of the most prolific wrestlers on the roster. Previously an Olympic aspirant. ‘TSP’ is making her mark as a UFC Women’s strawweight.
10-1 MMA and 7-1 UFC at the moment, her only tenure loss came in a title bid when champ Zhang Weili broke her 6-fight winning streak. But an only loss to the divisional champ speaks for itself as to Suarez and her skill ceiling. Hence, pundits and analysts, and definitely fans, did not like her watered-down prelim spot placement. Noche UFC 3’s Suarez doesn’t mind it much, though.
I don’t really mind where I am on the card…I can be the first fight of the card, it doesn’t really matter to me. I just like to fight. I show up regardless of what time it is. I’m going to show up there, and I’m going to go do my thing; think [I will] go in there…going to go in there, I’m going to manage my distance, and really go out there and try to win every single exchange…
Tatiana Suarez on MMA Junkie Radio with “Gorgeous” George and “Goze”
The 34-year-old meets fellow former strawweight title challenger Amanda Lemos at the Noche UFC Prelims (ESPN+3:00 AM), third-last in the order. 15-4-1 MMA, and 9-4 UFC, Lemos ranks No.4 in the strawweight rankings, and #14 in Women’s UFC Pound-for-Pound Rankings.
After UFC 313, Lemos already thinks she’s patching up her wrestling/anti-wrestling and is mere wins away from a top contender bout. While not considered the most ‘technical’ offering for a PPV lineup, she last won against the much snappier Iasmin Lucindo and broke her 4-fight winning momentum.
Meanwhile, Suarez was already a WMMA strawweight title challenger and instead sees debutant Santiago Luna taking on Quang Le as the Noche UFC 3 main card opener. The Team Millennia MMA wrestler sees this as an opportunity to rebound from her UFC 312 PPV loss and take a ‘W’ home over the power-packing Brazilian powerhouse. Per BetOnline.Ag, Suarez opened up a heavy betting favorite and she thinks that speaks for itself where she’s seated per the skill ceiling.
Ground-game heavy Aljamain Sterling often found himself in prelim spot matchups
It isn’t just about Tatiana Suarez or her watered-down Saturday’s Noche UFC prelims at Frost Bank Center. Other top standouts like Aljamain Sterling and Stephen Thompson were relegated to prelim slots as well. ‘Wonderboy’ is a proper veteran yet made a late walk on ESPNews/ESPN+ Pay-per-view at 8:00 A.M during UFC 307 PPV prelims. Serra-Longo Fight Team’s Sterling was first on the spot, but later got third-last slot on the main card.
‘Funk Master’ lost part of his funk and his coveted bantamweight gold to Sean O’Malley at UFC 292; he later made the move to featherweight. Fight fans have often quipped that with O’Malley having heavy notes of bossman privileges, and with UFC CEO Dana White confused as to why Aljo won’t fight Merab Dvalishvili to climb the contention ladder (despite their friendship), there was some animosity.
The running joke was that this was bossman White’s way of putting down the fighter with a lower slot placement. Aljo would later fight third-last on late PPV prelims at UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura and Movsar Evloev even jibed it was the rival’s fault. While a former UFC bantamweight king, Sterling has often found himself with the short straw, and this, in turn, has created much stray lineups.
🔥🚨NEW: Brendan Schaub SOUNDS OFF on Dana White and UFC matchmakers for putting Amanda Lemos vs. Iasmin Lucindo on #UFC313 PPV card, and calls it the WORST FIGHT IN UFC HISTORY. 😬
— Parry Punch (@ParryPunchNews) March 11, 2025
“[Second] fight of the night is Amanda Lemos. .. Buddy, it is the worst fight in UFC HISTORY.… pic.twitter.com/eelSNXw7hn
Former top-15 UFC HW-turned-analyst, Brendan Schaub, saw the $80+ pay-per-view card (at UFC 313) as “pure exploitation” of the fanbase. With UFC litigation saying they had streaming difficulties, Alex Pereira losing his gold, and laggy streams, Schaub went on a rant. He billed that non-technical WWMA catfights and slow-striking sweeps like Lemos vs. Lucindo deserved a lower pecking order for a $16 (one-fifth of UFC 313 PPV main card offering) tag. While those like Sterling have deserved higher standards, over the years.
🚨 A few inside details of the UFCs issues with ESPN from @erichterrr/@nypost
— ACD MMA (@acdmma_) March 15, 2025
▫️ The UFC are still extremely upset with ESPN over the PPV issues during the Pereira v Ankalaev card
▫️ UFC have an issue with ESPN because of their technology and ESPN feel like they’re not getting… pic.twitter.com/s5dXOv0A22
Mark Shapiro, the President and Chief Operating Officer of TKO Group (NYSE: TKO), later said that UFC 313’s bad stream and meager PPV prelim lineup only sparked their dissent with ESPN. ESPN, despite its cost controls, wanted a better product, while UFC media wanted better tech to be able to do that, to overcome watering down their lineups.
Would the new 7-year, $7.7B deal to stream on Paramount+ have better orders and better cost controls? Will Paramount be the change engine? Will Noche UFC 3’s Suarez, Sterling, and other wrestle-heavy fighters get better spots? Only time will tell.
