科羅拉多斯普林斯, COLO (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, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

With up to six spots in each division already secured, based on the results of the 2016 精英全國錦標賽, 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.

總計 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,” 說 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 馬克·卡斯特羅 (弗雷斯諾, 加利福尼亞州。), 輕中量級 Delante “虎” 約翰遜 (克利夫蘭, OH), 次中量級 Quinton Randall (Katy, TX), 最輕量級 拉根公爵 (辛辛那提, OH), 權重股 Cam F. Awesome (Lenexa, KS) 和 Jared Anderson(托萊多, OH), 中量級 特洛伊艾斯利 (亞歷山大, VA), 輕中量級 Freudis Rojas, JR. (拉斯維加斯, NV), super heavyweights) Nkosi Solomon (布魯克林, 紐約) 和 理查德Torrez (萊裡, 例如.

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