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…