Who is on the Team USA boxing squad for the Tokyo Olympics? Meet the boxers hoping to follow Claressa Shields and Shakur Stevenson

Males

Featherweight: Duke Ragan

The Cincinnati, Oh. native is already off and operating as an expert, having generated 4 wins with no blemish on his ledger to date. His final professional combat had Ragan produce a unanimous choice victory over Charles Clark in April.

This got here after he demonstrated that he has energy, too, throughout his professional debut final August.

Light-weight: Keyshawn Davis

Shakur Stevenson is large on Keyshawn Davis (pictured above). Shakur, the present  WBO interim junior light-weight champion, believes Davis has what it takes to win a gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics. Already, Davis has proven indicators of that potential, having compiled a 3-0 file as an expert.

Davis, who’s from Norfolk, Va., took first place honors on the 2017 and 2018 Elite Nationwide Championships, earlier than ending second within the 2019 Elite World Championships previous to turning professional.

A fast take a look at Davis’s social media accounts and the 22-year-old southpaw cannot wait to kick off his Olympic expertise.

Welterweight: Delante Johnson

Citing Sugar Ray Robinson, Pernell Whitaker and Floyd Mayweather Jr. as his favourite boxers, Johnson carries world championship expertise into the Olympics, having competed within the Elite World Championships and Youth World Championships, ending first within the latter again in 2016.

Middleweight: Troy Isley

Like Ragan and Davis, Isley is a professional with a 2-0 file to indicate for it to date.

Isley, Ragan and Davis are the primary professional boxers to signify Group USA within the Olympics due to an Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (AIBA) proposal from 2016 that got here to fruition.

Tremendous Heavyweight: Richard Torrez Jr.

Educated by his dad Richard Torrez Sr. and out of Tulare, Calif., Torrez is coming off a first-place end on the 2020 Boxam Match.

TeamUSA.org specifies that Torrez was his Excessive College Valedictorian and that his father competed within the 1984 Olympic Group Trials. So, boxing is in his bloodline. 

Girls

Flyweight: Virginia Fuchs

First within the 2020 Strandja Match, second within the 2019 Pan American Video games and third within the 2018 Elite Girls’s World Championships, this Houston consultant enters the Olympics with a embellished resume in tow.

Featherweight: Yarisel Ramirez

Ramirez grew to become the tenth and closing member of USA Boxing on the power of her bronze medal on the 2019 Pan American Video games and from competing on the 2019 Elite Girls’s World Championships.

The Cuban-born Las Vegas resident initially put herself on the candy science map with a silver medal within the 2015 Junior World Championships.

Light-weight: Rashida Ellis

Ellis enters the Olympics contemporary off a third-place end in each the 2020 Boxam Worldwide Match and 2019 Elite Girls’s World Championships.

As evidenced from her physique of labor, Ellis packs loads of punch at light-weight.

Welterweight: Oshae Jones

Jones holds the excellence of being the primary girl welterweight to be a member of USA Boxing within the Olympics. She competed within the 2019 and 2018 Elite Girls’s World Championships and has completed first within the Boxam Worldwide Match and Pan America Video games to call a number of.

Her brother is Otha Jones III, who’s 5-1-1 as an excellent featherweight professional.

Like him, she appears to be like to say a jab, earlier than opening up with a extra various offense.

Middleweight: Naomi Graham

A employees sergeant within the U.S. Military, Graham is the primary lively feminine navy member to signify USA Boxing within the Olympics. And he or she has large sneakers to fill, contemplating Claressa Shields is a back-to-back Olympic gold medalist within the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Video games. 

First within the 2020 Boxam Worldwide Match, 2020 Strandja Match and 2019 Pan American Video games, there is no doubt that Graham can thump.