Tatiana
Suarez will lock horns with Amanda
Lemos at
UFC 298 on Feb. 17.
The promotion announced the strawweight bout in a release on
Tuesday. UFC 298 takes place at the Honda Center in Anaheim,
California, and is headlined by a featherweight championship clash
between Alexander
Volkanovski and Ilia
Topuria.
After being sidelined by injuries for more than three years, Suarez
has enjoyed a successful return to action in 2023. The Milennia MMA
product kicked off her campaign with a submission of Montana
De La Rosa at UFC Fight Night 220 and then re-established
herself as a title contender by tapping out Jessica
Andrade in the second round of their encounter at UFC on ESPN
50. Suarez is 10-0 since beginning her professional tenure in
2014.
Lemos, meanwhile, is coming off a failed championship bid at UFC
292, where she dropped a five-round decision to reigning
strawweight queen Weili
Zhang. Prior to that, the 36-year-old Brazilian secured
finishes of Michelle
Waterson-Gomez and Marina
Rodriguez to earn her shot at 115-pound gold.