{"id":543762,"date":"2026-04-22T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:31:15","slug":"world-boxing-cup-2026-gallagher-progresses-but-marley-loses-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543762\/","title":{"rendered":"World Boxing Cup 2026: Gallagher progresses but Marley loses in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jude Gallagher opened Team Ireland&#8217;s account at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil in style with a 4-1 win over Kazakhstan&#8217;s Zhanseri Kosherbayev in the last 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old County Tyrone native will be back in action on Wednesday in the 60kg category against a Polish or USA opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Newtownstewart man won featherweight gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and participated in the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A tough one to get started (on). A very good opponent, a very technical, high-skilled bout so I&#8217;m just delighted to come out on the right side of that one,&#8221; said Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The last round was very important. I knew it was level going in to 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Things did not go so well for Dublin fighter Jack Marley however, the Monkstown clubman losing on a 4-1 verdict to Italian Dean Nwokedi Chime in the last 16 of the 90kg division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 11 boxers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cyv12800jg5o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">representing Team Ireland <\/a>at the event in Foz do Iguacu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Gallagher opened Team Ireland&#8217;s account at the World Boxing Cup in Brazil in style with a 4-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}