ROSTER UPDATE: Team USA Gearing Up for World Cup Brazil 2025
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by USA Boxing
Team USA has updated its roster ahead of the World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025. Ramon Ordonez will now represent the Stars and Stripes in Brazil in the 60kg weight class in place of Thomas Covington, due to injury.
Team USA is gearing up to compete for gold at the World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025. This will be the Stars and Stripes' first international event in the new Olympic quadrennium. The World Cup will be hosted in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, from March 31 to April 5. 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 the competition, as Jennifer Lozano, Alyssa Mendoza, and Morelle McCane will make their first international appearances in the boxing ring since the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
On the men's side, Robby "Rahim" Gonzales will bring veteran leadership to this young men’s Team USA squad. Gonzales brings years of international competition experience, including a gold medal at the 2021 World Championships. The men will see many rising stars debut internationally, including Malachi Georges, who earned gold at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials for Boxing.
Team USA has concluded its first competition training camp of the year, 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.) and Danilo Garcia (Oakland, Calif.) will assist Coach Walsh during World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025.
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Team USA Elite Men's Roster:
55 kg: Orlando Zamora | Turlock, Calif.
60 kg: Ramon Ordonez | Newark, N.J.
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
