It’s not that she’s worried about losing a mental edge or that she’s superstitious. She just doesn’t care about what people are predicting will happen before she even makes the walk to the Octagon. Because once fight night rolls around, any pre-fight chatter is just that: noise.
“I don’t think about those things,” Suarez recently told MMA Fighting when asked about how it feels to be the favorite in all of her UFC fights so far. “When you’re locked in a cage with someone, you don’t think, ‘Oh, I’m the underdog, I’m the favorite.’ Those things kind of go out the window when someone’s trying to kick you in the face.