Cooper and her UFC 224 opponent Mackenzie Dern had a fiery staredown Friday at the event’s ceremonial weigh-ins. Cooper twice refused to shake Dern’s hand and instead went nose-to-nose with Dern in a tense scene after the Brazilian jiu-jitsu star badly missed weight earlier in the morning at UFC 224’s official weigh-ins.
With more than an hour remaining to weigh-in, Dern tipped the scales at 123 pounds, seven pounds over the strawweight limit — and Cooper isn’t happy.
“There’s a lot of emotions today,” Cooper said on FOX Sports 1 following the ceremonial UFC 224 weigh-ins.