{"id":118561,"date":"2025-09-04T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:45:07","slug":"mackenzie-dern-more-athletic-grew-more-muscle-for-ufc-321-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118561\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Dern more athletic, grew more muscle for UFC 321 title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI watched my fight with her last time, and I was like, \u2018Man, I was so petite,\u2019 I didn\u2019t really have any muscle,\u201d Dern told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K2YxEhL8RXU&amp;t=715s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>. \u201cI was just kind of very girly-girl, and I\u2019m way more athletic now and just able to grow the muscle and get a way more mature, athletic body to fight for the championship now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI know I can do it because it\u2019s been done before,\u201d Dern said about beating Jandiroba. \u201cSo the only question is if I can do it again, and can I [be] better focused on getting better. I know, for sure, she\u2019s going to bring new stuff. So I\u2019ve just got to be prepared for that and fighting basically a different Virna, although we both know our strengths are grappling, but we\u2019re both totally different fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To see who else is fighting at UFC 321 next month in Abu Dhabi click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/24\/24473849\/ufc-321-fight-card-start-time-date-location-aspinall-vs-gane-jones-abu-dhabi-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201dI watched my fight with her last time, and I was like, \u2018Man, I was so petite,\u2019 I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,1647],"class_list":{"0":"post-118561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-upcoming-ufc-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}