Mackenzie Dern entered UFC top 15 rankings for the first time over the last week. The talented bjj ace is 2-0 in the Octagon and that’s the score that counts in spite of many critics pointing out that her latest victory came in a non existent division more or less.
This is something that came across sharp criticism. Angela Hill was quoted saying:
Felice Herrig (ranked 8th) weighed in:
I’m going to weigh in on the @ufc #strawweight rankings with at least 7.5lbs of factual perspective:
1- For the most part 1-5 are pretty accurate across all weight divisions, but after that the rankings are a crap shoot.
2- These days hype trains seem to be gifted rankings over actually having to fight to the top.
3- #McenzieDern misses weight by 7.5 pounds, which makes her closer to a #Flyweight than strawweight. She beats an unranked fighter and takes @angieoverkill well earned #15 spot when her only actual win in the ufc as a #straweight was to #Ashleyyoder. McEnzie won by a very close split decision, while Angela won unanimously. So why does Angela get bumped?? 4- Justine Kish isn’t even in the top 15, although she beat #14 #NinaAnsaroff unanimously and #11 #RandaMarkos. Justine did move up to Flyweight but so did #calderwood. So why is Calderwood even in the rankings anymore?
5- If #waterson is #7 & I’m #8 then 9,10 & 11 are all out of order…
6- I beat #Grasso unanimous decision , I beat #casey split. Waterson beats casey split decision. Casey finishes Markos, while Grasso takes her to split. So the rankings should actually be:
#7 Waterson
#8 Herrig
#9 Casey
#10 Grasso
#11 Markos
Even if Dern made weigh there is no factual reasoning as to why or how she could take Angela’s spot other than a massive glitch in the matrix.LBD out!
Meanwhile Rose Namajunas is levelheaded:
“You can tell she has that style developing. So it will be interesting to see if she can fix her issues and maybe she can be a future contender.”
Rose Namajunas: ‘I Would Like To Test My Jiu-Jitsu with Mackenzie Dern’
