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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