It seems pregnancy and motherhood have helped Mackenzie Dern as a fighter in more ways than she could have anticipated. Just a couple of days away from her Octagon return – after giving birth her daughter, Moa, back in June – the Brazilian jiu-jitsu blackbelt tells Ag Fight that breastfeeding has helped her maintain weight ahead of her fight against Amanda Ribas at UFC Tampa.
After badly missing weight in her last fight – where she came in at 123 lbs to meet Amanda Cooper in May 2018 – and only four months after giving birth, Dern shared the experience of raising a newborn baby while training for an UFC fight.