LAS VEGAS – Mackenzie Dern is already a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but she now believes she’s ready to accomplish the same feat in MMA. While she’s been competing in MMA professionally for the past five years, Dern said she is now seeing the improvements in her own game that are necessary to compete at the highest level of the sport. “I definitely think I am at the right structure in my life,” Dern told MMA Junkie at Wednesday’s UFC on ABC 2 media day at the UFC Apex. “I have the right support that I need. Since my pregnancy, I think a big thing I was saying was that I kind of lost a lot of muscle and that I wanted to eventually gain that muscle, so this was the first camp that I felt like, ‘OK, my boxing, my striking, I’m getting to a good level
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Mackenzie Dern fully committed to UFC title run, believes she’s now ‘champ material’ – MMA Junkie