Daina Moorehouse and Dean Clancy both recorded wins at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil on Tuesday. However, Michaela Walsh exited the tournament in Foz do Iguacu.<\/p>\n
Moorehouse was a resounding 5-0 winner of her last-16 bout against New Zealand’s Ashley Belk in the 51kg division, with the judges scoring the fight 27:30, 27:30, 26:30, 27:30, 27:30 in favour of the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n
The Wicklow pugilist next faces Poland\u2019s Natalia Kuczewska on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Boxing Ireland after her bout, Moorehouse said: “I feel good. Happy to get the first one out of the way. The first one is always the toughest.<\/p>\n
“From here, I’ll just keep building on top of it and hopefully get better each time.”<\/p>\n
The 4\u203211\u2033 Moorehouse found herself in the unusual position of facing a shorter foe, adding: “I actually think it’s harder because I’m used to punching so high.<\/p>\n
“My punches were actually going over her head. I think I’d rather box taller people.”<\/p>\n
Clancy is through to the last 16 of the 65kg division after a similarly dominant display against . Romania\u2019s Arun Nicu Tuboroiu.<\/p>\n
Judges scored the bout 27:30, 28:29, 28:29, 28:29, 27:30 in a 5-0 verdict.<\/p>\n
Walsh came out on the wrong side of another 5-0 result, with Alyssa Mendoza of the United States coasting through their last-16 clash in the 57kg division. Judges scored the bout 27:30, 27:30, 27:30, 27:30, 27:30.<\/p>\n
Irish eyes on Wednesday will be focused on the exploits of Jenny Lehane, Jude Gallagher, Evelyn Igharo and Louis Rooney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daina Moorehouse and Dean Clancy both recorded wins at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil on Tuesday. However,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-623169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623169","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=623169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}