Mackenzie Dern rips UFC 330 performance despite dominant title win

Mackenzie Dern believes she needs to improve a lot.

Dern put her Ultimate Fighting Championship strawweight title on the line for the first time against Gillian Robertson in the co-main event of UFC 330. She outclassed Robertson in every facet to earn a unanimous decision win, but still isn’t happy with her performance.

Mackenzie Dern slams her performance at UFC 330: ‘I should have finished that fight’

The strawweight champion believes she needs to work on her cardio, endurance, striking and grappling. While Dern credits Robertson’s toughness, she believes she should have finished her counterpart. According to Dern, her performance might not have sufficed against a surging contender.

“I’m not happy with my performance,” Dern told Ariel Helwani. “I wish I did better. I wasn’t happy with my cardio, my endurance. I wasn’t happy with my striking. I wasn’t happy with my grappling. I wasn’t happy. I should have done a lot of that stuff better. I should have finished that fight, honestly. Obviously, Gillian is very tough too… If I fought that performance against someone else coming up, that wouldn’t be good.”

Dern won the vacant title against Virna Jandiroba last year after former champ Weili Zhang vacated the title and moved up. She is now looking to defend her title against Zhang, Tatiana Suarez, or Lupita Godinez next.

This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com

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