juggles his boxing training with working as a carpenter<\/a> – lost on a split decision to Eriu Temakau of Kiribati.<\/p>\nTeers had a point deducted for a low blow in the opening round before improving in the second.<\/p>\n
But Temakau won the third round and took the decision 3-1.<\/p>\n
“Surprisingly, I feel good – a split decision loss, I think the point deducted away from me in the first round kind of edged it his way, which is boxing, these things happen,” Teers told BBC Guernsey.<\/p>\n
“I’m just so happy to be here in these facilities and around all these athletes, it shows me what I’ve done to get here and I’m just happy, I couldn’t really say any more to be fair.”<\/p>\n
Teers has twice reached the English Elite National semi-finals, but says this bout was likely to be his only fight at a Commonwealth Games for Guernsey.<\/p>\n
“I think realistically this is it for me for amateur boxing,” he added. “I think I’m more suited to the pros so I think I’m going to try to go pro and see what’s out there for me.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been doing a lot of sparring with the pros now anyway, so I think that’s the next route for me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey boxer Tommy Teers saw his Commonwealth Games debut end in defeat. The 28-year-old bantamweight – who juggles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709030","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\/709030","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=709030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}