Mackenzie Dern changed teams ahead of her next fight. A trip to her previous gym didn’t exactly result in a warm welcome from one coach.
Until recently, Dern spent time training with the Black House team in Los Angeles, though she’s since partnered up with striking coach Jason Parillo. She described her departure from Black House as an amicable one, with the exception of an incident involving former coach Juan Gomez and her husband Wesley Santos.
Dern isn’t exactly sure what she or Santos did to draw Gomez’s ire, but when Gomez invited them to the gym to talk business the discussion rapidly devolved into fisticuffs.