Mackenzie Dern: Tecia Torres is going to ‘strive to overwhelm me’ in ‘main’ UFC 273 matchup

Mackenzie Dern thinks her kind matchup with Tecia Torres is a recipe for a in point of fact inviting fight.

Dern (11-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) meets Torres (13-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) at UFC 273 on April 9. The strawweight bout is piece of the pay-per-witness main card, which takes area at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., and airs following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

The jiu-jitsu specialist will explore to rebound from her Battle of the Night loss to Marina Rodriguez at UFC Battle Night 194 in October, and is conscious of the streaking Torres will lift the fight to her.

“I mediate that that is a major fight,” Dern suggested MMA Junkie. “Tecia is looking out for to acquire into the cease five, I’m looking out for to conceal my last fight that used to be a loss, so acquire support on the get rid of glide, and I mediate it’s gonna be fireworks this fight.”

Dern, No. 7 in the most up-to-date USA TODAY Sports actions/MMA Junkie strawweight rankings, is conscious of No. 12-ranked Torres has shared the octagon with the very finest. “The Dinky Twister” has won her previous three, and that momentum gifts a unhealthy danger.

“I mediate Tecia’s having a explore so correct, I’m happy to be fighting her at the present in her profession,” Dern acknowledged. “I mediate she had gone from a dropping glide, nevertheless correct dropping from all former champions so now she’s positively roughly overwhelming the girls and that’s why I say that is gonna be a firework fight as a result of I don’t know what’s gonna be her approach, nevertheless I have confidence admire she’s gonna attain and take a explore at and overwhelm me admire she’s been doing her last fights. I mediate we’re every correct gonna strive to acquire the honor we need from every assorted.”

Dern took some treasured classes from her loss to Rodriguez, the put she went five rounds for the first time in her profession and used to be compelled to strike for the huge majority of it. Even despite the true fact that she’s going through a grand smaller opponent in Torres, she aims to be much less tentative on the ft and lope forward with the plot to acquire her offense going.

“I positively don’t deserve to hump support to what I did with Marina the put I stride forward, nevertheless I roughly stride support too,” Dern acknowledged. “Certainly I’m gonna take care of walking forward too in this fight, and I gaze her doing the the same thing, throwing her blitzes, she throws moderately numerous combos and stuff admire that. I positively don’t gaze me going into this fight without getting hit or anything admire that, nevertheless I’m positively gonna hump in and take a explore at and hit her too. That’s why I mediate this fight is gonna be so inviting for everyone and it’s gonna be a mountainous battle.”

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