Kickboxing Instructor Mercedez Smitley has been doing Mixed Martial arts for 18 years. Starting off doing boxing at the age of seventeen till the age of eighteen. At the age of eighteen she attended Mixed Martial arts school where she studied kickboxing and jiu jitsu. Entering into multiple jiu Jitsu tournaments until the age of twenty when she had her first amatuer MMA bout. After competing in six amatuer fight she became Oakdales first women Mixed Martial Arts Champion. In 2017 she competed in her first Professional MMA fight at the age of twenty six.