UFC women’s strawweight Mackenzie Dern made her sophomore octagon performance over the weekend. However, the week leading up to the fight has not gone without its controversy.
Dern went toe-to-toe with Amanda Cooper on the live pay-per-view main card of UFC 224, the highly anticipated sporting event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dern earned a submission victory over Cooper, bringing the fighter to 7-0 in her undefeated streak. Leading up to the fight, Dern missed weight for the match by a massive total of 7.4 pounds.
The fighter also revealed during the UFC 224 Post-Fight Press Conference that she was made to leave her fight camp at The MMA Lab four weeks before UFC 224.
Taking to Twitter, teammates Lauren Murphy and Jocelyn J Lybarger have come forward to claim that Dern is not telling the entire truth concerning the matter. Murphy first claimed that Dern was not removed from her camp four weeks before the fight.
Not true https://t.co/B8uEfIpGjn
— Lauren Murphy (@LaurenMurphyMMA) May 13, 2018
Lybarger later concurred.
— Jocelyn J Lybarger (@mmajocelyn) May 13, 2018
Later taking back to Twitter, Murphy offered some details on the situation. Check it out below:
1) it wasn’t 4 weeks
2) it wasn’t unexpected like she made it sound
3) it wasn’t “in the middle of her camp”
4) most people would not have asked to postpone the fight, because most people would not be in her position to begin with
5) it has zero to do with her weight cut https://t.co/VYPenao5el— Lauren Murphy (@LaurenMurphyMMA) May 13, 2018
