Team USA Gearing Up for World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025
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Team USA is gearing up to compete for gold at the World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025. This will be the Stars and Stripe's first international event in the new Olympic cycle, and the first Elite international competition since the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The World Cup will be hosted in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, from March 31 to April 5. The USA Boxing’s roster of Elite High Performance competitors in Brazil includes 12 boxers: seven males and five females.
Three Olympians will lead Team USA into competition, as Jennifer Lozano, Alyssa Mendoza and Morelle McCane will make their first international appearances in the boxing ring since Paris. Elite team member and 2024 Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez suffered an injury, which will force her to miss the action in Brazil. Stepping up for Gonzalez is Lisa Greer, the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials for Boxing first-place winner and bronze medalist from the 2024 USA Boxing International Invitational.
On the men's side, Robby "Rahim" Gonzales will bring back veteran leadership to this young Team USA squad. Gonzales brings years of international competition experience, which includes a gold medal at the 2021 World Championships.
The men will see many rising stars make their international debut, including Malachi Georges, who earned gold at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials for Boxing, and the youngest member of the team, Thomas Covington. Covington, a 19-year-old boxer out of Detroit, Mich., recently won Most Outstanding Male Elite Boxer at the 2024 USA Boxing National Championships and looks to carry that momentum into Brazil.
The Stars and Stripes will conclude its first competition training camp of 2025 on March 25, which was conducted at the United States Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Following the conclusion of the World Boxing Cup: Brazil, Team USA will compete at a 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 of 2025 for the USA Boxing Elite teams will be the inaugural World Boxing Elite Championships, hosted in Liverpool, England, Sept. 4-14.
A full roster of USA Boxing Elite men's and women's teams is listed below.
USA Boxing Head Coach Billy Walsh (Colorado Springs, Colo.) will lead the charge throughout Team USA camp in preparation for the first World Boxing Cup of the year. National Resident Coach Timothy Nolan (Rochester, N.Y.) and new National Junior & Youth Coach Edward Fonteneaux (Fayetteville, N.C.) will assist Coach Walsh during the training camp.
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Team USA Elite Men's Roster:
55 kg: Orlando Zamora | Turlock, Calif.
60 kg: Thomas Covington | Westland, Mich.
65 kg: Dustin Jimenez | Rochester, N.Y.
70 kg: Carlos Flowers | Dover, Del.
80 kg: Robby (Rahim) Gonzales | Las Vegas, Nev.
90 kg: Malachi Georges | Teaneck, N.J.
90+kg Kelvin Watts | Chesapeake, Va.
Team USA Elite Women's Roster:
51 kg: Jennifer Lozano | Laredo, Texas
54 kg: Yoseline Perez | Houston, Texas
57 kg: Alyssa Mendoza | Caldwell, Idaho
60 kg: Lisa Greer | Chicago, Ill.
65 kg: Morelle McCane | Cleveland, Ohio
