Ireland’s Jenny Lehane had a unanimous victory over Venezuela’s Diana Mastre at the World Boxing Cup Brazil.<\/p>\n
The Meath fighter, who had received a bye into the last 16, won on all five judges’ scorecard after the 54kg bout.<\/p>\n
Lehane, who fights for a medal on Thursday against Serbia’s Sara Cirkovic (9.45pm Irish time), told Boxing Ireland: “Feeling good, always good to get the first one under way. So, hopefully, build on today and be back even better tomorrow.<\/p>\n
“I definitely started out a bit unsettled, I think. First day nerves. I held on to my composure and felt more relaxed in the second round and it showed.”<\/p>\n
Jude Gallagher from Tyrone was withdrawn following a medical assessment before his scheduled fight with Salim Ellis-Bey.<\/p>\n
He handed his USA opponent a walkover in the last-16 stage of the 60kg category.<\/p>\n
Gallagher had beaten Kazakhstan’s Zhanseri Kosherbayev is his opening bout in Foz Do Iguaca.<\/p>\n
Louis Rooney was defeated by Morocco’s Issam Bensayar in their 50kg bout. The Belfast man was beaten in all three rounds.<\/p>\n
Evelyn Igharo lost to former pro boxer Citlallo Vanessa Ortiz from Mexico on a split decision.<\/p>\n
The Dundalk boxer was ahead after round one of the 70kg fight but four judges went the way of the Mexican.<\/p>\n
In addition to Lehane, three more Irish boxers will contest last-16 bouts on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Daina Moorehouse takes on Poland’s Natalia Kuczewska (3.45pm), world bronze medalist Patsy Joyce faces Tajikistan’s Meroj Sufijonov (4.45pm), and Dean Clancy meets Mexico’s Hugo Barron in the next match-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Jenny Lehane had a unanimous victory over Venezuela’s Diana Mastre at the World Boxing Cup Brazil. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-624987","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\/624987","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=624987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}