{"id":276464,"date":"2018-05-14T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=276464"},"modified":"2018-05-14T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T03:31:48","slug":"video-mackenzie-dern-says-she-weighed-139-pounds-when-she-arrived-in-brazil-for-ufc-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mackenzie-dern\/video-mackenzie-dern-says-she-weighed-139-pounds-when-she-arrived-in-brazil-for-ufc-224\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Mackenzie Dern says she weighed 139 pounds when she arrived in Brazil for UFC 224"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MackenzieDern?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MackenzieDern<\/a> opens up about her failed weight cut at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC224?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC224<\/a>, says she weighed 139 pounds the Tuesday before weigh-ins. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheMMAHour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheMMAHour<\/a> live: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/11sYrEm5Ug\">https:\/\/t.co\/11sYrEm5Ug<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZtAuaH0E9l\">pic.twitter.com\/ZtAuaH0E9l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/996141557433688065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I arrived at 139 pounds and a half and then on Wednesday, I was 131.4.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not that it&#8217;s typical, you know but I would like to get at the week of the fight at like 120. There&#8217;s no like typical [weight I arrive at]. Honestly, when I got there on Tuesday I wasn&#8217;t scared yet, I wasn&#8217;t nervous or anything. I felt like I was on the plane and everything and I was drinking so&#8230; On Tuesday when I arrived, I felt like, &#8216;oh man, it&#8217;s my last day but for me it was possible&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t use a nutritionist. I have friends in Brazil and we got one nutritionist that I know and I talked with him as soon as I arrived in Brazil and I started to\u00a0ask\u00a0him like, &#8216;this is the weight here, here. This is where I&#8217;m at, this is where I&#8217;m going, what hotel, what sauna, wet sauna not a dry sauna&#8217;. All these things. I let him know everything I ate. And we worked like the week of the fight. But it&#8217;s kind of hard, you know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He wasn&#8217;t someone I was working with for 6-8 weeks, he was someone that&#8217;s a nutritionist that I know and he tried to help me in Vegas too [for my fight at UFC 222].&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The biggest buzz during UFC 224&#8217;s fight week came at the weigh-ins. Which as history has shown is never a good thing. And it wasn&#8217;t this time either.<\/p>\n<p>Highly touted undefeated strawweight prospect, Mackenzie Dern was set to make her sophomore appearance in the UFC but when going to weigh in weighed seven pounds over the 115-pound strawweight limit. Fortunately for Dern, her opponent, Amanda Cooper still took the fight.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Dern missed weight for one of her fights. Including this weight miss, she&#8217;s missed weight for three of her seven career bouts and all times were by two or more pounds with each miss being more than the last(118.8, 120 and 123). Not a great trend.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, it wasn&#8217;t the best choice by Cooper who ended up getting submitted in the very first round after being dropped with a big shot on the feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/14\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospect @MackenzieDern opens up about her failed weight cut at #UFC224, says she weighed 139 pounds the Tuesday before weigh-ins. Watch #TheMMAHour live: https:\/\/t.co\/11sYrEm5Ug pic.twitter.com\/ZtAuaH0E9l &mdash; MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) May 14, 2018 &#8220;I arrived at 139 pounds and a half and then on Wednesday, I was 131.4. 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