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Total Fights | 19 |
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Wins | 17 |
Losses | 2 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 2 |
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Title Defenses | 2 |
Title-Fight KOs | 0 |
KO Wins | 3 |
KO Losses | 0 |
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Seven years and eight months into his professional boxing career, Erika Cruz has fought 19 times with 17 wins and 2 losses.
Cruz' boxing record is currently 17-2, which includes two world-title wins and two successful title defense fights at the featherweight weight division. He has a 15.8% knockouts-to-fights ratio with three of his total 19 fights being knockout wins. Cruz has never lost via knockout.
His latest fight was a 10-round majority decision victory over Mayerlin Rivas on November 18, 2023. Cruz won the super-bantamweight WBA title with this win.
Some of Cruz' best fights and notable victories include wins over Jelena Mrdjenovich, Mayerlin Rivas, Melissa Esquivel, Melissa Oddessa Parker, Maria Elena Villalobos, AidĂ© RodrĂguez, and Guadalupe Zi Jaimes.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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19 | Nov 18, 2023 | 33 | Mayerlin Rivas | Win * | MD |
18 | Sep 15, 2023 | 33 | Melissa Oddessa Parker | Win | UD |
17 | Feb 4, 2023 | 32 | Amanda Serrano | Loss * | UD |
16 | Sep 3, 2022 | 32 | Jelena Mrdjenovich | Win * | UD |
15 | Nov 26, 2021 | 31 | Melissa Esquivel | Win * | SD |
14 | Apr 22, 2021 | 30 | Jelena Mrdjenovich | Win * | TD |
13 | Feb 20, 2021 | 30 | Leticia Uribe | Win | UD |
12 | Sep 21, 2019 | 29 | Jocelyn Morales Torres | Win | UD |
11 | Mar 8, 2019 | 28 | Vissia Trovato | Win | UD |
10 | Oct 27, 2018 | 28 | Magaly RodrĂguez | Win | MD |
9 | Jun 29, 2018 | 28 | Karina Hernández Boiso | Win | TD |
8 | Mar 16, 2018 | 27 | Karla Ramos Zamora | Win | UD |
7 | Oct 20, 2017 | 27 | Maria Elena Villalobos | Win | TKO3 |
6 | Jul 8, 2017 | 27 | AidĂ© RodrĂguez | Win | TKO2 |
5 | May 12, 2017 | 27 | Virgen Adriana Tapia | Win | UD |
4 | Oct 8, 2016 | 26 | Guadalupe Lincer Ortiz | Win | MD |
3 | Aug 26, 2016 | 26 | Guadalupe Zi Jaimes | Win | TKO1 |
2 | Jun 25, 2016 | 26 | Alondra González Flores | Loss | MD |
1 | Mar 6, 2016 | 25 | Diana Gabriela Ojeda Crespo | Win | UD |
* World-title fight
Erika Cruz (Dinamita) is a 33-year old Mexican professional boxer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico on May 3, 1990. He is a two-weight-class world champion.
Cruz made his professional boxing debut against Diana Gabriela Ojeda Crespo at the age of 25 on March 6, 2016, defeating Crespo via 4 round unanimous decision.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 30 on April 22, 2021 after 13 professional fights, against Jelena Mrdjenovich for the featherweight WBA title. He defeated Mrdjenovich via 7 round technical decision to become the featherweight champion of the world.
Cruz has won two world titles at two weight classes. For all the details about Cruz' world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Cruz has had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career so far.
His most recent fight was on November 18, 2023 against Mayerlin Rivas for Rivas' super-bantamweight title. Cruz won the fight via 10 round majority decision and won the WBA title. It's been 4 months and 10 days since this fight.
Cruz has had a total of five world-title fights till today, which includes winning two world titles and two successful title defenses. He won four of these fights and lost one.
Erika Cruz has fought for world titles in three fights and won two of these fights. Till today, he has won two belts across two weight classes.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Nov 18, 2023 | Mayerlin Rivas | Super-bantamweight | WBA | MD |
Apr 22, 2021 | Jelena Mrdjenovich | Featherweight | WBA | TD |
Erika Cruz has had three featherweight world-title defense fights. He won two of them and lost once.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Sep 3, 2022 | Jelena Mrdjenovich | Featherweight | WBA | UD |
Nov 26, 2021 | Melissa Esquivel | Featherweight | WBA | SD |
Erika Cruz has lost one world-title defense fight, and lost one title in the fight.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Feb 4, 2023 | Amanda Serrano | Featherweight | WBA | UD |
Cruz has fought a total of 19 times till today, which includes 5 world-title fights at two weight divisions. These two fights are the highlight of his career.
April 22, 2021: Cruz wins his first world title by defeating Jelena Mrdjenovich via 7 round technical decision. He is now the WBA featherweight world champion.
September 3, 2022: Cruz successfully defends the WBA featherweight title against Jelena Mrdjenovich, winning the fight via 10 round unanimous decision.
Cruz has knocked out 3 of his 19 opponents so far. His KO ratio currently stands at 15.8%. Of his total 17 wins, three of them have been via KO (17.6%).
Cruz' first world-title win was the WBA belt at featherweight. He defeated Jelena Mrdjenovich via 7 round technical decision to win the title.
As of March 2024, Cruz has won two world titles at two weight classes.
Cruz has had a total of three title defense fights so far. He was successful two times and lost one time.