If you think Mackenzie Dern considers her seven-pound weight miss some sort of big joke, the potential star has a message for you.
“I’m ashamed of that,” Dern said at the UFC 224 post-fight press conference. “I don’t want that to happen again.”
Dern came in at 123 pounds for a scheduled strawweight bout with Amanda Cooper on Friday, which didn’t stop Dern from earning a first-round submission win on Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro.
Afterward, Dern said that a handful of factors played into the scale fail, including missed flights that caused her to arrive late enough to throw her regimen off-kilter.