UFC Vegas 39 Preview: Can BJJ prodigy Mackenzie Dern secure a breakthrough win?

Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Mackenzie Dern fighting Nina Nunes at UFC on ABC 2While the card as a whole is certainly subpar for a typical Fight Night Card, the main event for UFC Vegas 39 isn’t to blame in the least. The scrap between Mackenzie Dern and Marina Rodriguez has some serious implications at the top of the strawweight division, perhaps even title implications.

The top of that division has been in a stranglehold by the four most recent champions: Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Rose Namajunas, Jessica Andrade, and Weili Zhang. Those four have been circling one another seemingly nonstop, all four of them having faced each other — multiple times in some cases. And that’s even with Andrade…