Join now and get your first month for just $1 ><\/a><\/p>\nDespite the surprise result, several more Aussies have won their opening bouts in the esteemed amateur tournament, which is being broadcast out of the UK on both Kayo Sports and Main Event.<\/p>\n
Central Coast fighter Lachlan Lawson was the biggest winner, stopping Surat Garayev in the first round of his 85kg bout, while Victorian duo Jacob Cassar and Marissa Williamson Pohlman also enjoyed victories.<\/p>\n
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Callum Peters from Australia. Photo by Ben Roberts Photo\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Main Event\u2019s Ben Damon confirmed Peters had been attended to by a doctor for his potential concussion after the loss, and suggested his Canadian rival had undeniably \u201cfought the fight of his life\u201d.<\/p>\n
Damon also credited the 22-year-old South Australian\u2019s class shown in defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were high hopes of Callum Peters coming home with a medal, and even our first ever gold,\u201d Damon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you\u2019re as good as Callum is, everyone you fight is going to try to lift to a whole new level and that\u2019s exactly what happened in this bout.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis Canadian opponent was really quite exceptional and deserved the win – he fought the fight of his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cCallum was with the doctor after the fight and it\u2019s believed he may have suffered a slight concussion in the opening round from a clash of heads, so that certainly would have contributed to him varying from his game plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this is amateur boxing and these sorts of upsets happen all the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise at all that Callum carried himself with utter class after the fight and despite this setback his future is as bright as any young boxer in the world today.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be interesting to see if he fights on in the amateurs towards next year\u2019s Commonwealth Games – where he would again be a medal favourite – or commits himself entirely to the professional scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut whatever he does, it\u2019s going to be exciting as he is a special character and a world class boxer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Callum Peters from Australia. Photo by Ben Roberts Photo\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Australians in action tonight include Emma Sue Greentree and Monique Suraci, while Cassar has his second bout (round of 32).<\/p>\n
While no Aussie has ever won gold at the world amateur tournament, there were high hopes Peter would be the first \u2013 with the Olympian and Commonwealth Games silver medallist currently ranked No.1 in the world on Boxrec.<\/p>\n
The hyped South Australian prospect is also unbeaten in four fights as a professional, and finished off preparations for his historic push in Sydney sparring Paulo Aokuso and Mounir Fathi.<\/p>\n
After competing in the Olympics at 80kg, Peters had dropped down to 75kg for this event.<\/p>\n
Previously, five males including Brisbane heavyweight Justis Huni have won bronze, while Caitlin Parker and Kaye Scott have also won silver, with the latter doing so twice.<\/p>\n
Other fighters to have won bronze include Jamie Nicolson, Justin Rowsell, Stefan Scriggins and Joe Goodall.<\/p>\n
Among Aussie females, Skye Nicolson, Jessica Bagley and Emma Sue Greentree have also won bronze.<\/p>\n
There are 12 Aussies in action in the tournament, with finals underway from September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callum Peters\u2019 bid to become the first Australian to win gold at the World Boxing Championships is over,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-123105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}