The first World Boxing Cup of the year is set to be held in Brazil. The events will take place from 31 March – 5 April 2025.
More than 130 boxers representing 19 countries will feature in the competition.
Officially known as the “World Boxing Cup: Brazil 2025 – Foz do Iguaçu”, it is the first World Boxing Cup event to be held in South America.
The Rafain Palace Hotel & Convention will host the events. It had earlier hosted major events in a wide range of sports, including Brazil’s national boxing championships.
The field will include a number of Paris 2024 Olympians including Australia’s Yusuf Chothia, Shannan Davey and Tina Rahimi.
The competition in Foz do Iguaçu is the first World Boxing Cup of 2025 and follows a successful debut season in 2024 which saw events in England, USA and Mongolia with the season finals returning to England.
Elite male and female boxers collect ranking points over several stages of competition during the calendar year and culminates in a final event where the stage winners and other top-ranked boxers compete for the World Boxing Cup trophy.
World Boxing Cup 2025: Teams
The competition will feature male and female boxers from across the world. Here are the list of teams that will battle out for title glory:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- Chinese Taipei
- France
- England
- Germany
- Guatemala
- India
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Norway
- Panama
- Poland
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- USA
- Uzbekistan
- Wales
World Boxing Cup 2025: Categories
For this year’s series the number of weight classes has been extended to ten each for men and women to reflect World Boxing’s updated competition rules.
| MEN’S WEIGHTS CLASSES | WOMEN’S WEIGHT CLASSES | |||
| Category name | Weight class | Category name | Weight class | |
| Flyweight / M50kg | 47-50 kg | Light-flyweight / W48kg | 45-48 kg | |
| Bantamweight / M55kg | 50-55 kg | Flyweight / W51kg | 48-51kg | |
| Lightweight / M60kg | 55-60 kg | Bantamweight / W54kg | 51-54 kg | |
| Welterweight / M65kg | 60-65 kg | Featherweight / W57kg | 54-57 kg | |
| Light-middleweight / M70kg | 65-70 kg | Lightweight / W60kg | 57-60 kg | |
| Middleweight / M75kg | 70-75 kg | Welterweight / W65kg | 60-65 kg | |
| Light-heavyweight / M80kg | 75-80 kg | Light-middleweight / W70kg | 65-70 kg | |
| Cruiserweight/ 85kg | 80-85 kg | Middleweight / W75kg | 70-75 kg | |
| Heavyweight / M90kg | 85-90 kg | Light-heavyweight / W80kg | 75-80 kg | |
| Super-heavyweight / M90+kg | 90 kg+ | Heavyweight / W80kg+ | 80 kg+ | |
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World Boxing Cup 2025: Schedule
- Day 1 – 31 March
- Day 2 – 01 April
- Day 3 – 02 April
- Day 4 – 03 April
- Day 5 – 04 April
- Day 6 – 05 April
