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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez · Mackenzie Dern vs Marina Rodriguez
From the tape · 9 Oct 2021

Mackenzie Dern vs Marina Rodriguez

UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Marina Rodriguez beat Mackenzie Dern

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMainReferee · Mark SmithFOTN

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner MackenzieDernRVCA · Born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States · Fights out of Huntington Beach, California, United States
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarinaRodriguezThai Brasil · Born in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · Fights out of Florianópolis, Brazil
Women's Strawweight5 rounds9 Oct 2021At the time: #4 Women's Strawweight vs #6 · rankings of 4 October 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Dern.
17-5
Record
17-6-2
−6 yr28
Age
34
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
63″
Reach
+2″65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
7
+42%4/667% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
RVCA
Gym
Thai Brasil
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Born in
Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Fights out of
Florianópolis, Brazil
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Mackenzie Dern5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 2
Marina Rodriguez24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 31BODY42%10 of 12LEGS21%5 of 6
5 of 17
Sig.
strikes
24 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:18
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Mackenzie Dern10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 21BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Marina Rodriguez1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
10 of 22
Sig.
strikes
1 of 6
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:21
Control
0:06
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Mackenzie Dern8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 31BODY0%0 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
Marina Rodriguez45 sig landed
HEAD62%28 of 66BODY18%8 of 15LEGS20%9 of 10
8 of 35
Sig.
strikes
45 of 91
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Mackenzie Dern15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 50BODY7%1 of 2LEGS13%2 of 2
Marina Rodriguez37 sig landed
HEAD38%14 of 36BODY35%13 of 19LEGS27%10 of 10
15 of 54
Sig.
strikes
37 of 65
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mackenzie Dern11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 43BODY18%2 of 2LEGS9%1 of 1
Marina Rodriguez37 sig landed
HEAD57%21 of 49BODY22%8 of 11LEGS22%8 of 8
11 of 46
Sig.
strikes
37 of 68
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:41
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Mackenzie DernMarina Rodriguez
Official totals — Mackenzie Dern first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell46–49
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide46–49

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 18 scored, Mackenzie Dern first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Jillian DeCoursey46–49
Scott Fontana New York Post46–49
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–49
MM AMania.com46–49
MM AJunkie.com46–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com45–48
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl46–48
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com46–48
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport46–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com46–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com46–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com46–48
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA46–48
Phil Murphy ESPN46–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com46–48

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Rodriguez · 39%48-46 Rodriguez · 37%48-45 Rodriguez · 11%49-45 Rodriguez · 4%

83 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Mackenzie Dern

1.07takedowns / 15 min
1.07 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.27 / 15m
5.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.54 / 15m
21%
ACCURACY
50%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Marina Rodriguez

0.27takedowns / 15 min

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. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Mackenzie Dern↑ +1.3pp
open 62.8%close 64.1%
Marina Rodriguez↓ −1.3pp
open 37.2%close 35.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mackenzie Dern opened at 62.8% and closed at 64.1% (+1.3pp), with Marina Rodriguez moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Mackenzie Dern-185-20362.8%64.1%+1.3pp
Marina Rodriguez16016637.2%35.9%−1.3pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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