Mackenzie Dern, a fighter in the UFC’s strawweight division, talks about suffering the first loss of her professional MMA career on Oct. 2019 and how ready she is to come back from it on May 30 at UFC on ESPN 9. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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