UFC strawweight champion Mackenzie Dern‘s coach Jason Parillo has given his thoughts on who she should defend her belt against first.
Earlier this year, Mackenzie Dern defeated Virna Jandrioba to become the new UFC strawweight champion. The belt was previously held by Zhang Weili, but she vacated it in order to pursue a bout with Valentina Shevchenko for the UFC flyweight championship. In the end, she came up short in that encounter.
Mackenzie Dern has already achieved her goal of capturing UFC gold, but as you can imagine, she wants more. She wants to prove that she is the undisputed belt strawweight on the planet right now, and she will be hoping to get in there and defend her title sooner rather than later.