Ireland’s Jude Gallagher recorded a 4-1 win over Kazakhstan’s Zhanseri Kosherbayev in his last-32 bout at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil, but Jack Marley and Jon McConnell both met with defeat in Foz do Iguacu.<\/p>\n
In a tight, technical 60kg contest against Kosherbayev, the judges scored the bout 29:28, 30:27, 28:29, 30:27, 29:28 in favour of the Tyrone fighter.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the victory, fight, Gallagher said: “A tough one to get started. A very good opponent, a very technical, high-skilled bout, so I’m just delighted to come out on the right side of that one.<\/p>\n
“The last round was very important. I knew it was level going in to the last. I sort of went through him, took him by surprise a wee bit and I think I hurt him with a body shot. That allowed me to pick my shots better and control the third round.”<\/p>\n
Marley came out on the wrong side of a 4-1 verdict in his last-16 encounter against Dean Nwokedi Chime.<\/p>\n
The judges scored the 90kg contest 29:28, 29:28, 27:30, 29:28, 29:28 in favour of the Italian.<\/p>\n
McConnell also bowed out, following a 3-2 split in favour of Kazakhstan’s Farukh Tokhtassunov in their 70kg last-32 contest, with the scorecards going the way of Tokhtassunov 28:29, 28:29, 29:28, 29:28, 29:28.<\/p>\n
Michaela Walsh, Daina Moorehouse and Dean Clancy represent Ireland on day two in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Jude Gallagher recorded a 4-1 win over Kazakhstan’s Zhanseri Kosherbayev in his last-32 bout at the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-621007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}