Boxing Ireland’s Michaela Walsh has been ruled out of the World Boxing Cup in China through illness. <\/p>\n
The 33-year-old was set to compete in Guiyang City in the women’s 57kg class but has withdrawn before the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n
The Belfast boxer is expected to be fit for the start of the Commonwealth Games in July, where she will compete for Northern Ireland in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately I won’t be competing in this World Cup as I picked up an illness in camp and I am unable to compete,” Walsh posted on her Instagram.<\/p>\n
“Back into preparation now for the Commonwealth Games next month.”<\/p>\n
As well as medals and ranking points, the second stage of the World Boxing Cup was preparation for Walsh as she looks to defend her Commonwealth Games title.<\/p>\n
Belfast’s Jon McConnell has also withdrawn from the tournament in China with an unspecified injury. <\/p>\n
Jack Marley and Adam Hession both lost their opening bouts in the competition. <\/p>\n
Paris Olympian Marley lost by split decision to Xuezhen Han of China in the 90kg class, while Hession was defeated by Mongolia’s Lundaa Gantumur in the last-32 of 60kg division.<\/p>\n
Daina Moorehouse is through to the last-16 of the 51kg class with a unanimous decision win over Chorong Bak of South Korea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing Ireland’s Michaela Walsh has been ruled out of the World Boxing Cup in China through illness. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641534","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=641534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}