Mackenzie Dern is about to step inside a cage for her third professional MMA fight, but has already set high goals for her career.
The jiu-jitsu wizard takes on Katherine Roy at Friday night’s LFA 6 in San Antonio, Texas, and has already established what she wants for her run in the sport: win a pair of UFC belts and retire before she’s 30 years old.
"I’ll try to follow (Conor) McGregor’s footsteps,” Dern told MMA Fighting on Monday. "The best in the world always have goals to achieve."
Dern competes as a strawweight, and the second belt she’s mentioning is in case the UFC creates the flyweight division for women in the future.