Jude Gallagher is through to the lightweight quarter-finals at the European Boxing Championships in Bulgaria.
The County Tyrone man scored a third-round stoppage against France’s Lounes Hamraoi for his second victory of the tournament.
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Gallagher was down on four cards after the first round, but stepped it up in the second and third, forcing standing counts before the contest was waved off.
Gallagher will now look forward to a quarter-final on Wednesday when he takes on Cuban-born Spanish boxer, Ewart Andrés Marín Hernández.
“I tried to box him in the first round,” Gallagher told Boxing Ireland after his win.
“He was a counter-puncher…
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