Female Featherweight Showdown! Amanda Serrano Stops Santana, Mrdjenovich Decisions Torres
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Los Angeles, CA (September 19th, 2020)– A female world featherweight championship showdown could be in the works between World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organization female titleholder Amanda Serrano of the United States, and World Boxing Association female titleholder Jenena Mrdjenovich of Canada. Two other 126 pound female titleholders are also out there.
Mrdjenovich, age 38, 41-10-2 with 19 knockouts, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the WBA Female World Featherweight champion, has the advantage of age and experience of 53 professional bouts since 2003 to justify a titular unification bout of this magnitude. On December 17, 2020, at Wild Card Boxing in Los Angeles, California, Mrdjenovich outpointed Iranda Paola Torres, 12-5-1 with four knockouts, San Antonio, Texas, by way of Mexico, over 10 rounds to retain her WBA World Female Featherweight title. Mrdjenovich also held the WBC Female World Featherweight title simultaneously with the WBA title in June 2019, but the WBC belt became vacant when Mrjanovich did not defend it and was picked up by Amanda Serrano.
Serrano, age 32, 39-1-1 with 29 knockouts, Brooklyn, New York, by way of Puerto Rico, has crisscrossed the spectrum of the female weight classes between 114 and 138 pounds and is the best pound for pound female fighter in the world. On December 16, 2020, Serrano, in a nontitle rematch, stopped Dahiana Santana, 36-13 with 15 knockouts, Dominican Republic, in the first round. Santana had gone into the eighth round with Serrano before getting stopped in a World Boxing Organization Female World Bantamweight title bout in 2017.
Amanda Serrano versus Mrdjanovich would be a great WBC, WBA and WBO unification match. Serrano also holds the World Boxing Organization Female World Featherweight title, which she last defended in 2019, so that belt could be on the table as well. 10-0 Sarah Mahfoud of Denmark IBF interim champion, who last fought and won in February 2020, was elevated (declared) the International Boxing Federation World Female Featherweight champion on July 16, 2020, and could be a candidate to fight either Serrano, Mahfoud, or the winner of Serrano versus Mrdjenovich to complete the unification of the 126 pounds female featherweight class in 2021. 16-2-2 Licia Boudersa of France holds the International Boxing Organization (IBO) version of the Female World Featherweight title, and last fought and won in February 2020.
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