USA Boxing’s 2026 national event schedule is no longer a plan on paper. The calendar already has two national events in the books, and the year now turns toward a summer run that includes the Junior Olympics & Summer Festival in Wichita, followed later by the National Open in Cleveland and the National Championships in Lafayette.
The organization said its 2026 calendar features five national events in four states, beginning with the International Open in Pueblo and ending with Nationals in Louisiana.
The first two events are done
The 2026 season opened with the International Open in Pueblo from Feb. 7 to Feb. 14, and USA Boxing later marked the event as complete after five days of competition.
The tournament produced a long run of decisions and stopped bouts, which set the tone for the year before the calendar moved into spring.
The next national stop was the Women’s Championships in Colorado Springs from March 10 to March 15, another event now in the books with final results posted on the official event page.
That gives the national calendar a clear shape already.
Two major events have passed, and both were built to help boxers collect experience, ranking value and national exposure inside USA Boxing’s Olympic style system.
The International Open was the first big marker of the year, while the Women’s Championships kept the spring schedule moving before the summer slate arrives.
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Wichita, Cleveland and Lafayette now define the rest of the year
The next major event is the 2026 Junior Olympics & Summer Festival, set for June 20-27 in Wichita, Kansas. USA Boxing has already opened registration, and the deadline for members to enter is Friday, June 5 at midnight MT.
That makes the event the immediate focus for youth, junior and development level boxers trying to get into the biggest summer stage on the schedule.
After Wichita, USA Boxing’s calendar shifts into the fall with the National Open, scheduled for Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 at Cleveland Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio.
The organization announced the event in March, giving boxers and coaches a clear target for the second half of the year.
Cleveland matters here because the National Open usually serves as one of the biggest testing grounds on the calendar before the final national championship push.
The year closes with the USA Boxing National Championships, scheduled for Dec. 5-13 in Lafayette, Louisiana.
That event remains the final destination on the national calendar and brings the season full circle after months of title races, qualification rounds and rankings movement.
USA Boxing’s official 2026 calendar and event pages list Lafayette as the last national stop of the year.
For boxers, the schedule now reads like a road map. The first two championships are done, the Junior Olympics & Summer Festival is next, and the late-year events in Cleveland and Lafayette will decide how the rest of the season is remembered.
The National Open also gives boxers one more major chance to prove themselves before the final championship run closes out 2026.
