科罗拉多斯普林斯, 可乐 (十一月 28, 2017) – Following a year of highly-competitive national events, US amateur boxers are set to compete in the 2017 USA Boxing Elite National Championship, 十二月 5-9, 在盐湖城, 犹他州.

With up to six spots in each division already secured, based on the results of the 2016 精英全国锦标赛, 2017 Elite Western Qualifier and 2017 Elite Eastern Qualifier, the remaining spots have been filled based on the wild-card application process to complete the field of elite boxers.

总计 88 boxers applied for a wild card qualification with 35 allocations awarded to finalize the Elite National Championships brackets.

“With this being the first year of the new elite athlete selection process, we are excited to see the top talent in the country compete to represent Team USA in 2018,” 说 Matt Johnson, USA Boxing High Performance Director. “We are looking forward to a high level of competition during these championships, and are confident that the increased competitiveness at the national stage will translate to further improvement of USA’s performance internationally on the road to Tokyo in 2020.”

Leading contenders include bantamweight 马克·卡斯特罗 (弗雷斯诺, 加利福尼亚州。), 轻中量级 在...前面 “虎” 约翰逊 (克利夫兰, OH), 次中量级 昆顿·兰德尔 (凯蒂, TX), 最轻量级 拉根公爵 (辛辛那提, OH), 权重股 Cam F. Awesome (Lenexa, KS) 和 Jared Anderson(托莱多, OH), 中量级 特洛伊艾斯利 (亚历山大, VA), 轻中量级 Freudis Rojas, JR. (拉斯维加斯, NV), super heavyweights) Nkosi Solomon (布鲁克林, 纽约) 和 理查德Torrez (莱里, 例如.

Below is the final list of elite boxers, in order of ranking, who will contend for the title of national champion: