{"id":907097,"date":"2026-09-23T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907097\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:20:13","slug":"european-boxing-championships-damar-thomas-reaches-super-heavyweight-final-as-great-britain-secure-five-medals-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907097\/","title":{"rendered":"European Boxing Championships: Damar Thomas reaches super-heavyweight final as Great Britain secure five medals | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damar Thomas reached the super-heavyweight final as GB secured five medals at the European Boxing Championships in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Thomas won his 90+kg semi-final against Azerbaijan’s highly experienced Mahammad Abdullayev. The Londoner dominated all three rounds to win a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Russia has returned to World Boxing competition and Thomas is due to box a Russian, David Surov, in Friday’s final.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely great. I’m just becoming who I thought I’d become and it would be great to win this,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n

“It’s like a to-do list. I managed to tick off the Commonwealths and now the Europeans. And hopefully I can tick off Olympic gold as well.”<\/p>\n

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\n Thomas is on a good run of form<\/p>\n

Paris Olympian Chantelle Reid has also reached the final after beating Serbia’s Milena Matovic in a fiercely contested bout.<\/p>\n

The Serbian took a 3-2 lead at the end of the first round, but Reid responded with a 5-0 second round before edging the third to seal a 3-2 victory and reach the light-middleweight final.<\/p>\n

She will face Turkish amateur boxing star Busenaz Surmeneli in the gold medal match.<\/p>\n

“I was behind after the first round, but I just listened to my coaches, stuck to the game plan and got over the line,” Reid said.<\/p>\n

“Each bout has got better and so has the opponent. I’ll be boxing one of the very best at my weight on Friday and I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

“It’d mean the world to me to win gold.”<\/p>\n

Dimeji Shittu (80kg), Callum Makin (75kg) and Abdul Burton (55kg) join them as GB boxers who have guaranteed themselves medals in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damar Thomas reached the super-heavyweight final as GB secured five medals at the European Boxing Championships in Bulgaria.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-907097","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\/907097","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=907097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}