On Saturday night, Virna Jandiroba will go head to head with Mackenzie Dern for the UFC strawweight championship. In their first meeting five years ago, it was Dern who managed to come out on top – but this time around, the stakes are much higher, and Jandiroba is well aware of that.

In a 5-round women's strawweight championship bout in the co-main event, Virna Jandiroba and Mackenzie Dern meet Saturday at UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi.

Nearly a decade after calling herself "the female Demian Maia," Virna Jandiroba has quietly lived up to the label and earned a title shot via eerie parallels to Maia's own path.

Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane, Virna Jandiroba vs. Mackenzie Dern and more had final UFC 321 faceoffs at ceremonial weigh-ins.