England’s boxing team enjoyed a successful day five of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as six fighters won their quarter-final contests.<\/p>\n
Lauren Mackie (54kg), Lucy Kings-Wheatley (60kg), Sacha Hickey (65kg) and Mary Kate Smith (75kg) all won their fights to make it into the women’s semi-finals.<\/p>\n
In the men’s 65kg Patris Mughalzai beat Uganda’s Nuhu Batte 3-0 and Isaac Okoh was victorious in the 90kg, with the only England boxer to lose their quarter-final on Tuesday being Ellis Trowbridge, who was defeated by Ghana’s Amadu Mohammed in the 55kg weight category.<\/p>\n
The quarter-finals continue on Wednesday when England’s Elise Glynn, Chantelle Reid, Dimeji Shittu and Damar Thomas will also aim to secure a semi-final spot.<\/p>\n
The semi-finals will be held on Friday, with the finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s boxing team enjoyed a successful day five of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as six fighters won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717183","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\/717183","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=717183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}