Yoseline Perez Secures Silver Medal for Team USA at World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025

The World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025 wrapped up Saturday, and Team USA secured five medals, one silver and four bronze. USA was represented throughout the week by 12 boxers, seven males and five females, in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. The event was the first international Elite tournament for Team USA for the 2025 calendar year.

Yoseline Perez earned her first elite international medal on Saturday after falling in the championship bout of the 54kg division. Perez lost to Poland’s Wiktoria Rogalinska on a 5-0 decision. The Houston, Texas, native is just 21 years old and is one of Team USA's top up-and-comers on the Elite roster. This silver medal is the latest of Perez’s international career and joins her gold medal from the 2022 Youth World Championships. In the first round of the tournament, Perez defeated Australia’s Monique Suraci, a Paris 2024 Olympian, and followed that up with a victory over Italy’s Sirine Charaabi in the semifinals.

Team USA’s four bronze medals at the World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025 were obtained by Jennifer Lozano (51 kg), Morelle McCane (65 kg), Carlos Flowers (70 kg), and Kelvin Watts (90+ kg). Perez’s silver medal brings the USA’s medal count to five for the week.

The World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025 was hosted in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, from March 31 to April 5. Team USA will now focus on the World Boxing Challenge in the Czech Republic (June 10-15), followed by a second World Boxing Cup in Kazakhstan (June 30 – July 7). The final international competition for the USA Boxing Elite teams in 2025 will be the inaugural World Boxing Elite Championships, hosted in Liverpool, England, Sept. 4-14.

Saturday, April 5, Results:

54 kg: Wiktoria Rogalinska, POL defeats Yoseline Perez, Houston, TX/USA, 5-0

Team USA Medalists:

51 kg: Jennifer Lozano, Laredo, TX/USA | Bronze

54 kg: Yoseline Perez, Houston, TX/USA | Silver

65 kg: Morelle McCane, Cleveland, OH/USA | Bronze

70 kg: Carlos Flowers, Dover, DE/USA | Bronze

90+ kg: Kelvin Watts, Chesapeake, VA/USA | Bronze