Busted up and moving forward, was in a fight unlike anything she had experienced in the UFC.
The Brazilian jiu-jitsu prodigy found herself in an all-out standup brawl with Virna Jandiroba at UFC 256 last December. Her nose was bleeding, and she was taking damage, but that didn’t deter her from moving forward. Dern remained calm, and she showed people that no matter where the fight goes, she is going to use her greatest weapon – her heart.
“I think that [fight] was really good to show the rest of the division that if you try to have too much strategy you can still lose.