Mackenzie Dern thinks Rose Namajunas will avenge her loss to Carla Esparza . Strawweight champion Namajunas (11-4 MMA, 9-3 UFC) faces Esparza (18-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC) in the co-main event of UFC 274 on May 7. It’s a rematch from their first fight, which took place at “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 20 finale in 2014. Esparza was able to use her wrestling to submit Namajunas and become the inaugural UFC women’s strawweight champion, but Dern thinks Namajunas’ ground game has come a long way since then. “I think Rose is going to win just because I think she’s evolved so much in all different areas,” Dern told MMA Junkie. “Her ground, her takedowns – I mean just with her fight with Zhang Weili, they were taking each other down
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