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…
