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Social Media Slams Mackenzie Dern For Latest Scale Fail

The MMA world went off on Mackenzie Dern for her botched #UFC224 weight cut.

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The MMA world was left scratching its collective head after news broke of Mackenzie Dern’s botched weight cut after coming in at a whopping seven pounds overweight for the strawweight limit prior to her main card bout againstAmanda Bobby Cooper at tomorrow’s UFC 224 from Rio.

While Dern’s UFC 224 opponent  has accepted the fight at catchweight, she as well as many others in the MMA community took to Twitter to offer their two cents over Dern coming in at 123 pounds for a 115-pound fight:

Dern will forfeit a percentage of her show purse to Cooper and the Commission overseeing UFC 224 in Brazil. Friday marks Dern’s third botched weight cut in her professional MMA career.

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Amanda Cooper Destroys Mackenzie Dern For Massive Weight Miss

Amanda Cooper slammed Mackenzie Dern for her massive weight miss:

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Mackenzie Dern missed weight by a whopping seven pounds for her UFC 224 bout with opponent Amanda Bobby Cooper earlier today.

Not surprisingly, Cooper wasn’t happy and has since called out rising star Dern on social media. Dern came in at 123 pounds for a 115-pound strawweight bout (which she could have made weight at 116 pounds for), but Cooper accepted the catchweight fight regardless.

Cooper took to Twitter immediately following the news of Dern’s botched weight cut, and didn’t hold her tongue while doing so:

This marks the third time in Dern’s professional MMA career that she’s missed the strawweight limit. Dern will now forfeit 10 percent of her show money from the athletic commission and 20 percent from the UFC to Cooper as punishment for missing weight.

Cooper, 23, even predicted Dern would have trouble making weight in the weeks leading into their UFC 224 showdown. Dern and Cooper will fight regardless on the main card of Saturday’s UFC 224.

Will Dern’s botched weight cut affect her performance against Cooper on Saturday?

Do you agree with Cooper that Dern’s extra seven pounds makes her a “disgrace to all professionals”?

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UFC Reveals Sizable Fine For Mackenzie Dern

The UFC made Mackenzie Dern pay for missing weight.

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Mackenzie Dern will pay for her latest weight miss.

Dern missed weight by an alarming seven pounds earlier today for her scheduled strawweight bout with Amanda Bobby Cooper at tomorrow’s (Sat., May 12, 2018) UFC 224 from the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Although the fight will go on after Cooper agreed to still fight her in a catchweight bout according to CABMMA (the Brazilian athletic commission for MMA) official Cristiano Sampaio, Dern will be fined the standard 10 percent of her purse, which in turns goes to Cooper.

However, that won’t be the extent of her punishment, as MMAFighting.com has reported that the UFC also handed Dern an additional 20 percent fine for missing weight, which will also go to Cooper. The additional sanction resulted in a total 30 percent of her overall pay going to Cooper.

Dern has had repeated issues with making the strawweight limit of 115 pounds in the past, twice missing weight and even competed at women’s flyweight during her climb up the ranks towards her UFC debut this March, a decision win over Ashley Yoder at UFC 222. There, she made weight, but when she made a quick turnaround to face Cooper in the country of her heritage, the results were the opposite with the massive miss.

Dern has also made headlines in recent weeks for her highly-publicized split from the MMA Lab in Arizona, where reputed head coach John Crouch reportedly asked her to leave the team due to issues with commitment, to which she responded she wasn’t fond of training every day and wanted to live her life on the beach as well.

If she wants to be the star the UFC is building her up as, however, she’ll have to clean up her scale issues sooner rather than later.

Today, she’s just going to be a lot lighter in the pocketbook.

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Mackenzie Dern Misses Weight; UFC 224 Fight vs. Amanda Cooper Will Proceed

Mackenzie Dern missed weight Friday for her UFC 224 bout with Amanda Cooper, but the fight will still take place, according to Chamatkar Sandhu of MMAJunkie. MMAFighting…

Mackenzie Dern missed weight Friday for her UFC 224 bout with Amanda Cooper, but the fight will still take place, according to Chamatkar Sandhu of MMAJunkie. MMAFighting…

Full UFC 224 Early Weigh-In Results. Mackenzie Dern Misses Weight By Seven Pounds.

Mackenzie Dern’s weigh-in issues continue to haunt her young MMA career. The jiu-jitsu sensation missed weight this morning by a staggering seven pounds over the strawweight limit at 123-pounds ahead of her fight against Amanda Bobby Cooper. Watc…

Mackenzie Dern’s weigh-in issues continue to haunt her young MMA career. The jiu-jitsu sensation missed weight this morning by a staggering seven pounds over the strawweight limit at 123-pounds ahead of her fight against Amanda Bobby Cooper. Watch her step on the scales below 123-Pounds Grappling star Mackenzie Dern missed weight for her #UFC224 strawweight […]

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Mackenzie Dern Misses Weight For UFC 224

Dern has missed weight for her second fight under the UFC banner:

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Mackenzie Dern missed weight for her scheduled bout at the UFC 224 pay-per-view event.

Dern is slated to take on Amanda Cooper in a women’s strawweight bout as part of the main card of UFC 224. UFC officials held the weigh-ins for UFC 224 on Friday, May 11, 2018.

At the early weigh-ins, it was revealed that Dern missed weight by weighing in at 123 pounds.

Dern was supposed to weigh in at the strawweight (116 max.) limit for her fight at this upcoming event. It should be noted that Cooper did make weight by weighing at 116 pounds. 

Keep in mind that Cooper has to accept the catchweight bout and the Brazilian commission must also sanction the bout before the fight can be deemed official. It turns out that this bout will go on as planned. 

Dern, who holds a pro-MMA record of 6-0, made her promotional debut against Ashley Yoder in March at the UFC 222 pay-per-view event where she scored a split decision win.

Prior to that, she made her MMA debut under the Legacy banner and even competed under the Invicta FC banner where she beat Kaline Medeiros via an armbar in round three back in December of 2017.

UFC 224 is set to take place on Saturday, May 12, 2018, at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Amanda Nunes vs. Raquel Pennington in a female bantamweight title fight will headline this event while Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Kelvin Gastelum in a middleweight bout will serve as the co-headliner.

Stay tuned to LowKickMMA for the latest on this developing story.

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