UFC star Mackenzie Dern has revealed that she didn’t find out about her UFC 321 title shot till opening social media.
As we now know, Mackenzie Dern and Virna Jandiroba will battle it out for the UFC strawweight championship at UFC 321. The title battle was made after Zhang Weili vacated the title to be able to pursue a second world championship up at flyweight, the place she’s going to tackle Valentina Shevchenko.
For Mackenzie Dern, this is a chance to show that the hype is, and has all the time been, actual. She’s all the time been on the outskirts of claiming a title alternative however has by no means fairly been in a position to make it occur, and now, it’s lastly arrived.
Because it seems, although, Mackenzie Dern herself wasn’t even aware that it will be for the undisputed crown till she noticed the information break on Instagram.
Mackenzie Dern reveals UFC title shot shock
“They had been form of speaking in regards to the interim belt. They’d mentioned the interim belt, um, and that was like possibly, I don’t know, three weeks in the past, 4 weeks in the past. They had been speaking about it, however they weren’t certain in the event that they had been going to do it. After which they’re like, ‘Okay, they’re going to do it, however wait till they announce it.’ After which I discovered by Instagram that it was going to be for the precise belt. Wow. When Dana introduced it.
“So I texted like Chiki. I’m like, ‘Wait, is it the actual belt or the interim belt?’ He’s like, ‘Oh, it’s the actual belt.’ So, yeah, that was identical to very latest the change. Not the interim belt, however after all we had been proud of the interim belt that might nonetheless… it’s nonetheless a belt and it will be like the subsequent step to getting the belt, however the truth that it’s for the actual belt undoubtedly places the additional happiness and gratefulness on it.”
