No. 8 ranked Mackenzie Dern will look to proceed her climb up the ladies’s strawweight rankings when she takes on No. 6 ranked Jessica Andrade at UFC 295 on November eleventh.
The battle was subtly introduced at UFC 292 when the cameras panned over to Dern and coach Antonio Trocoli having fun with the fights. The one point out of the battle was a small graphic within the nook of the display noting she’d battle ‘vs J. Andrade at UFC 295 (11/11/23)’.
Perhaps extra followers would have seen in the event that they weren’t so curious questioning who this man was along with his arm round Mackenzie.
Dern’s final battle was a dominant win over Angela Hill in the primary occasion of UFC Vegas 73. The BJJ phenom would take the victory by way of unanimous choice with 49–43, 49–44, and 49–44 scores. It was a cathartic second for Dern, who’d gone by way of a tumultuous camp following a messy divorce. Together with her common coach Jason Parillo busy getting ready Luke Rockhold for his naked knuckle boxing debut, Dern turned to Trocoli to assist her put together for Hill.
Trocoli is a 12-3 fighter finest recognized to followers in North America for a 2019 Contender Sequence submission win that was overturned as a result of a failed drug take a look at for nandralone. Dana White had initially supplied him a UFC contract off the win, however that ended up being nixed. “Malvado” went on to win three fights on the Brazilian regional circuit, and was re-signed by the UFC. They then launched him after visa points resulted within the last-minute cancellation of a UFC 282 battle towards Ovince Saint-Preux.
As for Jessica Andrade, the previous UFC girls’s strawweight champion has been on a skid recently. After shedding a flyweight title battle to Valentina Shevchenko, Andrade reeled off two wins at 125 and 115. However an especially busy 2023 schedule hasn’t achieved her any favors: she’s fought 4 instances this 12 months already, going 1-3 in that stretch. Most lately she misplaced to Tatiana Suarez by way of guillotine choke within the second spherical.
Andrade has been open concerning the cause for combating so typically: her personal messy divorce left her with virtually no cash. In response to the Brazilian fighter, the UFC stepped up with a brand new contract that payed her a number of instances what she made earlier than.
“After we cut up up, there was the entire divorce factor,” she mentioned. “It’s important to lawyer up after which the cash simply vanishes. Earlier than I spotted it, I had no cash. That’s why I say I work for the most important promotion on the planet, although. Once I wanted them essentially the most, they have been there for me.”
Andrade might be trying to get again on a successful observe towards Dern, who’s trying to earn her first successful streak within the UFC since a 4 battle run between 2020 and 2021.
UFC 295 goes down from Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis, New York and is headlined by a heavyweight title battle between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic.
