{"id":781702,"date":"2026-09-25T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781702\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:56:09","slug":"european-boxing-championships-abdul-burton-reaches-final-after-bronzes-for-callum-makin-and-dimeji-shittu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781702\/","title":{"rendered":"European Boxing Championships: Abdul Burton reaches final after bronzes for Callum Makin and Dimeji Shittu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Abdul Burton joined team-mates Chantelle Reid and Damar Thomas in reaching finals at the European Boxing Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burton, 20, comfortably beat Turkey&#8217;s Semih Gumus 4-1 in the men&#8217;s super-bantamweight semi-final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face Russia&#8217;s Viacheslav Rogozin in Friday&#8217;s final, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ck24jye74372o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reid and Thomas<\/a> will be contesting for the women&#8217;s light-middleweight and men&#8217;s super-heavyweight titles respectively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy, it was a good performance against a tricky kid,&#8221; said Burton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had to stay disciplined. I&#8217;ve really enjoyed the week, it&#8217;s good to secure silver but I&#8217;m going to be pushing for gold tomorrow. It would be pretty big to do that in my first major, when I&#8217;m this young, so all eyes on that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burton was one of three British semi-finalists but the only winner after Dimeji Shittu and Callum Makin were both beaten and claimed bronze. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain&#8217;s Abdul Burton joined team-mates Chantelle Reid and Damar Thomas in reaching finals at the European Boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781702","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\/781702","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=781702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}