Mackenzie Dern defeated Gillian Robertson via unanimous decision to retain the strawweight championship in the UFC 330 co-main event Saturday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The judges scored the fight 49-46, 49-46, and 48-47 in Dern’s favor.<\/p>\n
Dern faced minimal adversity in her first title defense. She dominated Robertson throughout most of the fight, outstriking the challenger on the feet and controlling her on the ground.<\/p>\n
Dern attempted a tight rear-naked choke in the first round, but Robertson survived.<\/p>\n
Robertson’s best round was the fifth, as she finished the fight on top of Dern and landing ground-and-pound. But it wasn’t nearly enough to swing the judges’ scorecards.<\/p>\n
Dern became the 115-pound champion with a unanimous decision win over Virna Jandiroba at UFC 321 last October. The 33-year-old is now riding a four-fight winning streak.<\/p>\n
Robertson challenged for a UFC title for the first time. The 31-year-old Niagara Falls, Ontario, native had won five in a row coming in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Dern defeated Gillian Robertson via unanimous decision to retain the strawweight championship in the UFC 330 co-main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-859837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}