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MacKenzie Dern diskuterar kontrakt med UFC

MacKenzie Dern är en mycket känd BJJ-utövare som bland annat är världsmästare i ADCC. Hon förhandlar just nu med UFC om ett kontrakt och kan göra sin debut redan i början på 2017.

Det här berättade Dern via ’MMAJunkie’:

The UFC talked to us already. My team and my coaches, we talked with them, and we definitely want to – I want to be there. I’m hoping in 2017 I’ll be there. But I don’t want to get just thrown into the shark tank. I want to go in there being a shark. I don’t want to be the fish for the sharks.

I respect all the girls there, and I know they’re at the highest level. It’s not jiu-jitsu. It’s a different sport. And I know that jiu-jitsu can help me for so long, but I know that sooner or later, I’ll have to be ready to take them down or something like that. So we’re just taking our time. I hope in 2017 I can be in the UFC. We’re just being patient and trying to get better as fast as possible. And while I’m doing that, I’m just enjoying the process.

Dern kommer dock att fortsätta att tävla i BJJ fram tills att hon börjar med MMA.

I think for all athletes in the beginning, it’s hard to live off of MMA. It’s no different for me. I’m still not at the phase where I can live just off of it. People think that doing jiu-jitsu is just for fun, but jiu-jitsu is my job. A lot of people that do MMA, they do part-time jobs, but jiu-jitsu is my job. I think that as long as I can’t live just off of MMA, I’ll keep doing jiu-jitsu.

I didn’t slow down my jiu-jitsu, but I still feel that I’m learning so much in MMA. And it’s good to have that feeling back. That’s what motivates me – to go in there one day and have my coach show me something and seeing it works when I try it at sparring the next day. Of course in jiu-jitsu, we have new girls coming to the back belt all the time, and it’s growing. That’s why I still love to compete. But I wanted to learn again, to feel myself getting better, becoming a better athlete.

Dern planerar även att förespråka BJJ i MMA och hoppas att hennes fans följer med henne när hon börjar med MMA.

I think the MMA world is the perfect place to help people be more aware of jiu-jitsu, and female sports and female athletes. So I’m happy, and I really hope that I help get more people excited about women’s jiu-jitsu and jiu-jitsu in general. To be compared to Demian Maia and Ronda Rousey – I’m so honored. What Ronda did for women in MMA and what Demian did for jiu-jitsu, if I could get the best of both worlds, that’s awesome.

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