I hear you. But then again she death rocked Cooper, who was supposed to be the superior striker, with one shot standing and then easily submitted her on the ground. With the talent level in WMMA being what it is, she can probably coast and still destroy most of these girls with ease.
Yes you are right there. She is an aggressive puncher, she wades forward and she's got good hand-speed and heavy shots, and moves surprisingly fast. I was surprised by her clocking Cooper but yes she absolutely caught her with a huge and fast overhand and of course once she's got you on the ground then you're 90% done.
I suspect Amanda Cooper was concentrating on "avoid the take down, get ready, she's gonna single-leg me or shoot a double..." and i think she absolutely did NOT expect to get slugged the way she did. So credit to MacKenzie on that. She won fair and square, no argument.
I think the UFC will continue to promote her and give her every opportunity, but like kenetics said a little earlier, i think she'd content to just kick-back, concentrate on her tan, beach time, all that, and rely on aggressive fast punches and of course her BJJ. It *will* serve her well with *most* opponents, but when she gets into the elite levels (hmm!) then her opponents will have a solid game-plan.
She reminds me, perhaps, a bit of Ngannou, who was on a roll, blasting everyone, and he thinks he is GOD and unstoppable and then....he gets in there with a guy (Stipe) who had a GOOD game-plan to defeat Ngannou, and got the job done. Ngannou exposed with no wrestling, no cardio. Anyway i guess that's a bit off-topic.
I think Dern could be really really good if she WANTED to be, but I don't see the hunger, the desire to learn all aspects of the game, the ability to stop eating junk food, at all.
I predict she will retire from MMA within 12 to 24months and cite almost anything as her excuse.
Wellington Dias, her dad, I think knows what it takes.
(sorry for the long post guys! My bad)
