Brianna Gonzalez to meet Felicity Taylor at 53 kg in women's freestyle at 2025 Final X

Taylor will make her third Beat the Streets Annual Benefit appearance, while Gonzalez will make her debut.

New blood is guaranteed to emerge in the 53 kg women’s freestyle division for Team USA at 2025 Final X. A pair of age-group World Team members and former college teammates — Brianna Gonzalez and Felicity Taylor — will battle on Saturday, June 14 at Prudential Center.

The duo has wrestled four times in the past two years, each woman earning two wins in the matchup. All four bouts were decided by decision, promising fans an excellent Final X series that has the potential to go three matches.

During the 2024 college postseason as teammates at Iowa, Gonzalez ousted Taylor in the NCWWC regional finals, 9-3, before Taylor flipped the script in the NCWWC national finals, winning the big one, 9-2. Taylor backed it up a month later with a 9-4 win over Gonzalez at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Most recently, Gonzalez topped Taylor, 6-5, in the finals of the 2025 U.S. Open.

Both women have competed at an age-group World Championships for Team USA in recent years. Gonzalez was a member of last year’s U20 World Team. Taylor wrestled as part of the U23 World Team in 2019 and 2022. Neither earned a World medal.

Notably, Taylor finished in fourth place at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials to make the U.S. National Team, her second time reaching this benchmark. Her other U.S. National Team season was 2022, where she was Final X runner-up.

On the college front, Gonzalez is a two-time NCWWC All-American for Iowa, with finishes of second and fifth at the national tournament. Taylor is a five-time national finalist and two-time national champion. She collected three runner-up honors and her first national title while at McKendree, before transferring to Iowa for her final season.

Gonzalez qualified for Final X by winning the U.S. Open in Las Vegas, Nev. Taylor rebounded from the runner-up finish at the U.S. Open to win the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament in Louisville, Ky., securing her place in Newark.

What’s at stake?

Final X will determine the 2025 U.S. World Team in two international disciplines—men’s freestyle and women’s freestyle. In total, 20 weight classes will be contested, 10 in each discipline. The top two U.S. athletes in each weight classes will wrestle a best-of-three series at Final X to determine the U.S. representative at the 2025 Senior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.

This year will mark Taylor’s third appearance at a Final X event. She made the best-of-three series in 2022, where she fell to eventual World champion and Olympian Dominique Parish in two matches. In 2023, Taylor was pinned by Samara Chavez in a true-third match. Gonzalez has not wrestled at Final X.

Beat the Streets New York Annual Benefit

Final X will serve as the Beat the Streets New York Annual Benefit, the 15th BTSNY Annual Benefit to date. These unique electrifying events help BTSNY raise more than $1 million each year to support local youth wrestling programs which empower young people in New York City. The BTSNY Annual Benefit after-party will follow the conclusion of Final X.

Taylor’s two trips to Final X, in 2022 and 2023, are the lone Beat the Streets event appearances for either competitor in this weight class.

Get Tickets

Benefit tickets and sponsorship packages (Final X plus exclusive after party celebration access), that also provide the best wrestling-event seats, are available at give.btsny.org/2025FinalX. Proceeds from Benefit tickets and sponsorship packages will directly help BTSNY serve NYC youth. For more information on ticket packages, email BTSNY Executive Director Brendan Buckley at bbuckley@btsny.org.

Event-only tickets for Final X without access to the BTSNY after-party celebration are available on Ticketmaster.

Follow Final X

FloWrestling will serve as the host broadcast partner for Final X. Fans can watch the event live or on-demand at FloWrestling.com.

Online results for Final X will be available on USA Bracketing, USA Wrestling's new best-in-class event management software.

Final X will be held in two sessions Saturday, June 14. Session I, which starts at 2 p.m., will feature round one in each best-of-three series. Session II, which starts at 5 p.m., will continue with round two and if-necessary round three matches. Match order for each session will be provided at a later date.

For more information about Final X, visit themat.com.

2025 Final X

June 14, Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.

Men’s Freestyle Matchups

57 kg – Spencer Lee (Iowa City, Iowa/Hawkeye WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Luke Lilledahl (Saint Charles, Mo./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)

61 kg – Vito Arujau (Ithaca, N.Y./Spartan Combat RTC/TMWC) vs. Jax Forrest (Johnstown, Pa./Cowboy RTC/Titan Mercury WC)

65 kg – Joseph McKenna (Stillwater, Okla./Cowboy RTC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Real Woods (Ann Arbor, Mich./Cliff Keen WC/Titan Mercury WC)

70 kg – Yianni Diakomihalis (Rochester, N.Y./Spartan Combat RTC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. PJ Duke (Slate Hill, N.Y./KD Training Center/Titan Mercury WC)

74 kg – Mitchell Mesenbrink (Bellefonte, Pa./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. David Carr (Ames, Iowa/Cyclone RTC/Titan Mercury WC)

79 kg – Evan Wick (San Gabriel, Calif./SoCal RTC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Levi Haines (Arendtsville, Pa./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)

86 kg – Zahid Valencia (Stillwater, Okla./Cowboy RTC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Kyle Dake (Port Matilda, Pa./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)

92 kg – Trent Hidlay (Raleigh, N.C./Wolfpack WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Joshua Barr (Davison, Mich./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)

97 kg – Kyle Snyder (State College, Pa./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Hayden Zillmer (Deerwood, Minn./Gopher WC)

125 kg – Wyatt Hendrickson (Stillwater, Okla./Cowboy RTC/U.S. Air Force WCAP) vs. Trent Hillger (Minneapolis, Minn./Gopher WC)

Women’s Freestyle Matchups

50 kg – Audrey Jimenez (Bethlehem, Pa./Lehigh Valley Wrestling RTC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Erin Golston (Denton, Texas/New York AC)

53 kg – Brianna Gonzalez (Baldwin, Calif./Iowa Women's WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Felicity Taylor (Coralville, Iowa/Titan Mercury WC)

55 kg – Cristelle Rodriguez (Fresno, Calif./Tiger WC) vs. Everest Leydecker (Phoenix, Ariz./Thorobred WC)

57 kg – Helen Maroulis (Rockville, Md./Titan Mercury WC) vs. Amanda Martinez (Riverside, Ill./Cardinal WC/Titan Mercury WC)

59 kg – Abigail Nette (Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army WCAP) vs. Jacarra Winchester (Colorado Springs, Colo./USOPTC/Titan Mercury WC)

62 kg – Kayla Miracle (Phoenix, Ariz./Valiant WC) vs. Adaugo Nwachukwu (Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army WCAP)

65 kg – Macey Kilty (Iowa City, Iowa/Iowa Women's WC/Sunkist Kids WC) vs. Aine Drury (Westminster, Calif./New York AC)

68 kg – Kennedy Blades (Tiffin, Iowa/Hawkeye WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Brooklyn Hays (Colorado Springs, Colo./USOPTC/Titan Mercury WC)

72 kg – Alexandria Glaude (Atherton, Calif./Beaver Dam RTC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Amit Elor (Walnut Creek, Calif./Titan Mercury WC)

76 kg – Kylie Welker (Iowa City, Iowa/Iowa Women's WC/Titan Mercury WC) vs. Dymond Guilford (Lancaster, Calif./USOPTC/Titan Mercury WC)