Paris 2024 Olympic champion Erislandy Álvarez (65 kg) leads the Cuban squad that will compete November 3–12 at the Guizhou International Boxing Tournament in China.

Recovered from the surgery that kept him out of the Santo Domingo 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games and the recent Continental Championship in Puebla, the also 2023 Tashkent world runner-up heads the group of seven men and six women from the island, reported the digital publication Jit.

National commissioner Robinson Poll reported that the roster includes the queen of Santo Domingo 2026, Dayira Mesa (70 kg), and four bronze medalists from that regional event: Keilor García (80 kg), Dinaibys de las Nieves (51 kg), Carysney García (54 kg), and Magda Massó (57 kg).

The other summoned boxers are Ángel Sober (50 kg), Deibys Abreu (55 kg), Rolando Martínez (60 kg), Fredisney Morales (90 kg), and Joel Duvergel (+90 kg) among the men, as well as Melani Girado (60 kg) and Naybel Morado (75 kg) for the women.

Under the direction of coaches Julián González Cedeño, Fermín Espinoza, and Yuri Echevarría, the Cuban squad has as its precedent last year's haul of three golds won by Saidel Horta (57 kg), Jorge Cuéllar (71 kg), and Nelson Williams (92 kg), and the bronzes of Arianne Imbert (66 kg) and Yoana Rodríguez (75 kg).