For the first 13 minutes of her UFC debut, the heavily hyped Mackenzie Dern showed she still has plenty of room for development.
But over the final two minutes, Dern displayed why so many are high on her future.
The world-class jiu-jitsu player used her skills over the latter half of the flnal round to seal a tight strawweight fight against Asley Yoder on Saturday night in the featured prelim bout of UFC 222.
Dern improved to 6-0 with a split-decision victory, getting the right end of two out of three 29-28s scores at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.