The warning signs were there. <\/p>\n
In the opening minute of his quarter-final bout, Orlando Holley-Sotomi caught his opponent with a couple of straight right hands. <\/p>\n
At 68 seconds, he unleashed another.<\/p>\n
The thunderous shot, followed by a left hook, sent Lesotho’s Refiloe Thai to the canvas. <\/p>\n
“Watching tape of my opponent, he was open to my backhand,” the Newport boxer said. <\/p>\n
“My backhand is one of my best shots so I didn’t hesitate, I just used it.”<\/p>\n
Knockouts of this brutality are rare in amateur boxing. ‘The General’ looked every bit the pro.<\/p>\n
After a tense silence when doctors rushed to his aid, Thai got to his feet to relieved applause from the gallery. <\/p>\n
When the referee lifted Orlando’s dangerous right hand in victory, it marked the end of a successful hour in Glasgow for Welsh boxing on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Defending champion Rosie Eccles stopped Samukelisiwe Sinothile Ncube in the second round of the women’s 70kg before delaying her media duties to watch Owain Harris-Allan win unanimously on points against home favourite Nick Devlin. <\/p>\n
Eccles, Harris-Allan and Holley-Sotomi join super heavyweight Connor Williams in guaranteeing themselves a Commonwealth Games medal. In boxing, losing semi-finalists are awarded bronze medals.<\/p>\n
So Friday, 30 July will see them seek to upgrade their medal colours ahead of finals the following day. <\/p>\n
Here are the four boxers chasing gold for Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The warning signs were there. In the opening minute of his quarter-final bout, Orlando Holley-Sotomi caught his opponent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720626","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\/720626","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=720626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}