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Mackenzie Dern is 11-5 in 16 UFC fights since her debut on March 3, 2018.
Her past five began with two losses. Jessica Andrade stopped her by TKO in the second round on Nov. 11, 2023, and Amanda Lemos won a unanimous decision on Feb. 17, 2024.
Dern has won three straight since. She took a unanimous decision from Loopy Godinez on Aug. 3, 2024, submitted Amanda Ribas in the third round on Jan. 11, 2025, and won a unanimous decision over Virna Jandiroba on Oct. 25, 2025.
The Jandiroba fight ran five rounds and was contested as a women's strawweight title bout, the only scheduled five-rounder among her last five appearances. Her last five bouts have all been at women's strawweight.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | pending |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Fighting out of | RVCA |
| Height | 5' 4" |
| Reach | 63.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 33 |
| Date of birth | Mar 24, 1993 |
| Weight | 115 lbs. |
| Pro record | 17-5 |
| Finish split | 12 UFC wins — 5 submission, 7 decision |
Career averages over Mackenzie Dern’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on her official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Women's Strawweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Mackenzie Dern’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.
FightIQ has called 1 of Mackenzie Dern’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Gillian Robertson | Mackenzie Dern | 53.5% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Mackenzie Dern’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on her. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
Pro record: 17-5. In the UFC: 12-5. Mackenzie Dern’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | W | Gillian Robertson | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 330: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry |
| 2025-10-25 | W | Virna Jandiroba | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane |
| 2025-01-11 | W | Amanda Ribas | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Ribas 2 |
| 2024-08-03 | W | Loopy Godinez | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov |
| 2024-02-17 | L | Amanda Lemos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria |
| 2023-11-11 | L | Jessica Andrade | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 295: Prochazka vs. Pereira |
| 2023-05-20 | W | Angela Hill | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill |
| 2022-10-01 | L | Yan Xiaonan | Decision (majority) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan |
| 2022-04-09 | W | Tecia Pennington | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie |
| 2021-10-09 | L | Marina Rodriguez | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | — |
| 2021-04-10 | W | Nina Nunes | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland |
| 2020-12-12 | W | Virna Jandiroba | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno |
| 2020-09-19 | W | Randa Markos | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley |
| 2020-05-30 | W | Hannah Cifers | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns |
| 2019-10-12 | L | Amanda Ribas | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Joanna vs. Waterson |
| 2018-05-12 | W | Amanda Cooper | Submission | R1 | UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington |
| 2018-03-03 | W | Ashley Yoder | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
