{"id":408930,"date":"2026-04-20T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:58:10","slug":"irelands-jude-gallagher-off-to-a-winning-start-in-brazil-but-jack-marley-and-jon-mcconnell-exit-world-boxing-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408930\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Jude Gallagher off to a winning start in Brazil, but Jack Marley and Jon McConnell exit World Boxing Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jude<\/p>\n

Jude Gallagher<\/p>\n

Tyrone fighter Jude Gallagher earned Team Ireland\u2019s opening win at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil, with a split decision success over Kazakhstan\u2019s Zhanseri Kosherbayev, a 2024 World Youth medalist.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Newtownstewart native is through to the last-16 following a tightly contested bout in Foz do Iguacu, and speaking to the media afterwards, the Olympian says a body shot in the last round was a key moment in the bout.<\/p>\n

“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,” said Gallagher.<\/p>\n

“The last round was very important. I knew it was level going into 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

Gallagher, who won gold at featherweight in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, has moved up to lightweight [60kg] and will face American Salim Ellis-Bey in the last-16 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

However, it was not to be for Jack Marley, as the Monkstown BC heavyweight lost his last-16 bout to Dean Nwokedi Chime of Italy.<\/p>\n

The 4-1 decision went to the Italian boxer.<\/p>\n

Belfast\u2019s Holy Trinity boxer Jon McConnell lost a 3-2 split decision to Kazakhstan\u2019s Farukh Tokhtassunov in Monday’s evening session.<\/p>\n

Paris Olympians Daina Moorehouse and Dean Clancy get their campaigns underway on Tuesday. In all, 11 boxers are representing Team Ireland at the event in Foz do Iguacu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Gallagher Tyrone fighter Jude Gallagher earned Team Ireland\u2019s opening win at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-408930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}