 Vasyl Lomachenko is regarded as the world's best amateur |
Welsh boxer Craig Evans suffered a heavy 15-1 defeat to Olympic champion Vasyl Lomachenko at the World Boxing Championships in Milan. Ukrainian featherweight Lomachenko is regarded as the world's best amateur. Evans, 20, scored a hard-fought 14-7 win over Egyptian Mohamed Eliwa in the previous round. Evans' fellow countrymen Andrew Selby and Andy Jones are already out of the tournament, meaning that Welsh interest at the Mediolanum Forum has now ended. Evans, the Welsh seniors featherweight champion, is one of British boxing's brightest emerging talents and is being touted as a potential Olympic fighter to compete at the London 2012 Games.  | 606: DEBATE |
But the Blackwood boxer, a member of Pontypool Amateur Boxing Club, will hope he has done enough to convince British boxing chiefs he is worthy of investment. He was in Milan as part of the two-man Welsh team having not initially been selected by the British governing body. Super-heavyweight Jones suffered a 99-second knock-out by Cuban Erislandy Savon, nephew of triple-Olympic gold winner Felix, and also survived two standing counts and was 10-0 behind when the referee ended the fight. Bantamweight Selby, part of the GB squad, was always up against it against experienced Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev, who had beaten the Welshman in the European semi-finals in Liverpool last November before in turn losing to Campbell in the final. Selby stayed in a tight contest to the end but was eventually beaten 3-0.
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