{"id":276557,"date":"2018-05-16T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=276557"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:56:53","slug":"strawweight-champ-rose-namajunas-feels-mackenzie-dern-deserves-tougher-punishment-for-missing-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rose-namajunas\/strawweight-champ-rose-namajunas-feels-mackenzie-dern-deserves-tougher-punishment-for-missing-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Namajunas: Mackenzie Dern needs to “get her s**t together”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, on the main card of UFC 224, BJJ star Mackenzie Dern stepped into the Octagon for the second time, taking on\u00a0Amanda Bobby Cooper<\/a>. Dern won this fight in emphatic fashion, dropping her foe with a huge punch in the first round, then sinking in a deep rear-naked choke for the win.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Dern\u2019s win over Cooper comes with an asterisk attached, as she tipped the scales at 123 pounds, a significant seven pounds above the strawweight division\u2019s 116-pound limit.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the latest episode of the UFC Unfiltered<\/a> podcast, UFC strawweight champion “Thug” Rose Namajunas gave her take on Dern’s failure to make weight. As you might have guessed, the champ isn’t impressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat right hand she threw [that dropped Cooper] looked like it was a big ol\u2019 girl throwing that punch,\u201d Namajunas said of Dern’s victory (transcribed by Sherdog.com<\/a>) \u201cThat was a heavy, heavy punch, and that was from a heavy girl. And not to say that that\u2019s not her punch and that\u2019s not a dangerous punch, but maybe that would\u2019ve been a little bit different had she made weight or at least gave an effort to make weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean you didn\u2019t even have abs, girl, like come on.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Namajunas was clearly unimpressed by Dern’s weigh-in blunder, she was impressed by Dern’s win otherwise, and is interested in testing her jiu jitsu against her if she can get serious about her weight cut.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, other than the weight issue, I thought she looked great,” she said. “I always wanted to test my jiu-jitsu against [someone with Dern’s ability] \u2026 that would be awesome. She\u2019s just got to get her shit together, and maybe that might be down the road.”<\/p>\n

Do you think Mackenzie Dern can get her weight under control and work her way to a title fight with strawweight champion Rose Namajunas?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 5\/16\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, on the main card of UFC 224, BJJ star Mackenzie Dern stepped into the Octagon for the second time, taking on\u00a0Amanda Bobby Cooper. Dern won this fight in emphatic fashion, dropping her foe with a huge punch in the first round, then sinking in a deep rear-naked choke for the win. 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