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Mackenzie Dern reflects on first MMA loss at UFC Tampa: ‘It only makes me hungrier’

Mackenzie Dern is no longer undefeated as an MMA fighter, and she expects good things to come with that.

Back to Brazil after dropping a decision to Brazilian strawweight prospect Amanda Ribas last Saturday at UFC Tampa, the jiu-jitsu specialist opened up about losing for the first time in MMA, whether or not she should have fought just four months after the birth of her daughter Moa, and how she expects to change as an athlete going forward.

“It only makes me hungrier to get back in there,” Dern told MMAFighting on how it felt to lose.