Kayla Gomez Takes International Title in Flyweight Division

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El Paso is known as Chuocotown and its the boxing capital of west Texas. It has produced former women's world champ, Jennifer Han. It is now the home to an amateur international champion as well. El Paso native Kayla Gomez becomes the Flyweight (51KG) champion after shutting out Cai Yan of China. Via 5-0 decision. Chuocotown

A jubilant Gomez talked about her performance saying " I was consistent throughout and kept throwing lots of punches. It feels good to win. I had never fought my opponent in an actual fight before, but I had sparred with her and that certainly helped me. I knew something about her and that knowledge paid off. China has a good boxing team, so this was a good win."

 It was a good win in what was the first international boxing event held in the US since 2018 and the first elite international competition since the 2007 Elite Men’s World Championships. Gomez, 19, dominated the competition and added the international title to her list of prior boxing titles and accomplishments that include:

2021 Junior Pan American Games - 1st

2020 USA Boxing Youth National Championships - 1st

2019 National Junior Olympics - 1st

2019 Western Regional Open - 1st

2018 Under Armour Junior Female Boxer of the Year

Two Texans Score International Gold in Ecuador

Two Texans take home international championship gold at The American Boxing Confederation (AMBC) elite Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The tournament ran from March 22 to April 2. Jennifer Lozano from Laredo captured a finals victory and dominated the tournament from start to finish. The Gateway City native took a 5-0 decision over Argentine fighter Tatiana Flores Milagros of Argentina to capture the 50 KG (110-pound) championship. On the men's side, in the 51 KG division (112 pounds), championship Roscoe Hill, from Spring, Texas, takes home the Gold after also taking a 5-0 decision over Argentine Ramon Quiroga dominated Romero Reyes Erislan of Cuba in the Gold Medal round.

19-year-old Hill, came out of some level of obscurity to capture the silver medal in the 2021 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, back in November. In his first international tournament, Hill scored staggering upsets over seasoned vets like Federico Serra of Italy on his way to coming up just short to Kazakhstan fighter Saken Bibossinov and capturing Silver. If 2021 was his coming out party he certainly made a bold statement to start 2022 in Ecuador to show 2021 was no fluke. He received a bye in the first round due to his high seeding and then beat Martin Perez of Panama by 5-0 decision, also shout our Quiroga to advance to the finals and then handed in the Gold Medal performance by outclassing Reyes Erislan of Cuba.

Lozano captured the national championship title at Shreveport back in December when she outpointed Kayla Gomez of El Paso in the finals. She came out and put together an absolutely dominated week of boxing. She blanked Liliana Murillo Deicy of Columbia (5-0) in the first round. Stopped Ecuador's Genesis Gomez in front of her home crowd in the second round and then dominated Flores Milagros to capture the Gold medal. 

Texas was well represented in addition to Hill and Lozano. There were many other Texans  representing the US in the Contential Championships including Emilio Garcia,  of Laredo, Kayla Gomez of El Paso, and Josh Edwards of Houston who won his first-round contest over Mexican boxer Luis Gomez Meneses, by a score of 5-0.