Amanda Cooper isn’t happy about Mackenzie Dern badly missing weight, and she’s looking forward to making her pay for it in the Octagon.
The two were scheduled to meet in a strawweight bout on the main card of UFC 224 on Saturday at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, but Dern came in heavy at Friday’s weigh-ins, hitting the scale at seven pounds over the 115-pound limit (plus a one-pound allowance).
It was ruled that Dern would be fined 30 percent of her show money (10 percent by CABMMA, the Brazilian athletic commission, and 20 percent by the UFC), which will go to Cooper, who agreed to proceed with what will now be a catchweight affair.