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15th May 2018
04:17pm BST

"I think the biggest reason is the diet from a lot of weeks ago. I know for sure a lot of things that happened throughout the whole camp, I missed my flight. So I knew coming to Brazil I would retain water, but I was counting one extra day."She revealed that her weight upon arriving in Brazil was 139.5 lbs, which is over the bantamweight limit. The commission was so concerned with her ability to make weight, they initially wanted to pull her from the card. She claims they issued her a challenge to hit a specific target before allowing her to continue the cut.
"But even when I arrived in Brazil, I wasn't scared I was heavy. The commission told me that they didn't want to let me fight. As soon as I came to Brazil, they wanted to pull me out on Tuesday when I arrived. But, I said, 'No, it's ok.' I just flew 14 hours drinking gallons of water, I didn't do any exercise. Of course I'm going to be heavy. So they made me make a weight the next day. So I dehydrated two days early to show I made a weight before and when I made that weight on Wednesday, they let me continue cutting."According to Dern, she weighed 131.4 lbs on Wednesday. She claimed that she typically likes to come in somewhere in the 120s at the start of fight week.
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