The continuing education of Mackenzie Dern

The first time I heard about Mackenzie Dern was around the same time the fight game began to change.
It was early 2012, and Ronda Rousey was in the early stages of an unprecedented rise that forever shifted the balance between the ‘x' and ‘y' chromosomes in mainstream mixed martial arts. Female prizefighting was beginning to feel like a legitimately viable career path, more so than ever before, and every few weeks my old jiu-jitsu coach would warn me about the daughter of his pr