Here's the match video of Mackenzie Dern vs Virna Jandiroba from last night's UFC show in Las Vegas. This fight is at Strawweight. Both fighters are Brazilian Ju Jitsu black belts. This is Mackenzie's first full camp with new coach Jason Parillo of Kings MMA in Huntington Beach, CA. He coaches Cris Cyborg. Virna is from Bahia, Brazil. She trains at Academia. She is a former Invicta champ. On last week's Big Topic in WMMA podcast, Schwan Humes and I joked about how with two BJJ black belts, this sill probably be a kickboxing match. This was discussed on the broadcast too. And that's what happened. Mackenzie punches harder and she rocked Virna a few times. She's just not a good enough striker to know how to finish a fight. I scored round one 10-9 for Mackenzie. Virna was better in round two. She broke Mackenzie's nose with a knee. So I scored round two 10-9 for Virna. Round three was close but I thought Mackenzie did enough to win the round 10-9 and then the fight 29-28. All three judges scored it 29-28 too. We will probably see Mackenzie move into the top ten and face a higher ranked opponent. Her striking has improved since she started working with Parillo. But she's a work in progress. Though she has power, I think her striking is too wild and Parillo will work on getting that under control. He's already helped her and she could be an elite fighter now. Enjoy the video!
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