(APR 16)  Exciting news this week that was published on the WBA website that Canadian Jelena Mrdjenovich who has held the WBA 126-pound since 2016, is going to make a sixth defense against Mexican Erika Cruz Hernandez on April 22, 2021, which will take place at the West Point Military Academy, in New York.

In Jelena's last fight, she fought on December 17, 2020, at the Wild Card Boxing, in Los Angeles, California. She fought Iranda Paola Torres in a ten round bout, winning by a unanimous decision and in that fight she was defending her WBA Featherweight title.

Her opponent, Erika Cruz Hernandez, her last fight took place this year on February 20, 2021 against Leticia Uribe, winning by an eight-round bout by a unanimous decision in a non-title contest.  

The WBA said the following: "Cruz Hernández, nicknamed “Dinamita”, was the first female boxer to win a silver medal in a Pan American tournament when the event took place in Guadalajara, 2011. She harvested a fruitful career as an amateur while she also joined the Federal Police of the Federal District of Mexico. She made her professional debut on March 6th, 2016 and holds a positive record of twelve wins with two KOs and only one loss. On March 8th, 2019, she won the WBC 126 lbs. silver belt by unanimous decision over Italian Vissia Trovato. This southpaw boxer has a technical boxing style and will look to show it off in the first fight out of Mexico with Mrdjenovich as the biggest challenge of her young career."

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