Michaela Walsh exited the World Boxing Cup in Brazil as the Belfast featherweight fell to USA’s Alyssa Mendoza.<\/p>\n
The pair met in February’s Strandja tournament in Bulgari with Walsh coming through by way of a split decision, but the American southpaw advanced on this occasion.<\/p>\n
Mendoza was quicker out of the traps, exerting pressure on the 32-year-old Holy Family club woman who was seeking to counter, but was unable to get going until late in the round which all five judges scored to the American.<\/p>\n
It was a similar story in the second with Mendoza again making a fast start, landing a combination wit Walsh warned on a couple of occasions for holding.<\/p>\n
The Belfast woman did enjoy some success late in the round, but again all five judges favoured Mendoza which left Walsh with a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n
Walsh did have more joy in the third, but Mendoza was again doing the more eye-catching work to sweep the boards for a third time and move into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Daina Moorehouse is through to the last 16 in the 51kg division thanks to an impressive win over New Zealand’s Ashley Belk.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner boxed superbly throughout, winning every round on each of the cards to advance<\/p>\n
Dean Clancy also prevailed on a 5-0 decision in his 65kg opener against Romania’s Arun Nicu Tuboroiu. <\/p>\n
Team Ireland’s Jenny Lehane, Jude Gallagher, Evelyn Igharo and Louis Rooney are in action on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michaela Walsh exited the World Boxing Cup in Brazil as the Belfast featherweight fell to USA’s Alyssa Mendoza.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-544551","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\/544551","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=544551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}