Women’s Strawweights
Konklak Suphisara (7-3, 4-2 UFC) vs. Elise Reed (6-2, 2-2 UFC)All in all, Suphisara’s UFC career has been a success thus far. The promotion’s first fighter out of Thailand, Suphisara is one of the more decorated muay thai artists on the UFC roster and has impressed with her ability to round out her game. However, her main issue has been sheer physicality. Suphisara is a natural atomweight, and without the UFC offering that division as an option, she has a clear ceiling in terms of marching all the way up to title contention. Despite that, Suphisara has held her own extremely well given her size disadvantage, even taking wins from more powerful athletes like Aleksandra Albu and Jinh Yu Frey. It has taken a combination of skill and strength to fully neutralize Suphisara, as Lupita Godinez showed in a one-sided 2021 win. Of course, none of that figures to be an issue against Reed, another former atomweight who has had to overcome some physical shortcomings to find UFC success. A scrappy striker, Reed can put on a fun fight and outwork her opponent given some physical parity, though it has gotten ugly for her against more powerful competition. Sijara Eubanks and Sam Hughes were able to leverage clear wrestling advantages into dominant wins, with Eubanks, in particular, laying on a quick and brutal beating. Things do not figure to get quite that bad for Reed in this one, but it does look like a fight where Suphisara should clearly be able to separate herself as the more powerful fighter, particularly in the clinch. The pick is Suphisara via decision.
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