The miracle of Martin McDonagh seemed set to proceed to Paris this afternoon, just for the massive man to be pipped on the submit of a decent tense ring race.
The Galway tremendous heavyweight, who had his first carded combat simply two years in the past, pushed World Championship silver medalist Davit Chaloyan all the way in which within the remaining bout of the Olympic qualifiers.
Certainly, many felt, McDonagh had nearly completed sufficient to have his hand raised but it surely wasn’t to be for the boxer, who got here out of nowhere to grow to be a revered Elite newbie operator at his weight.
The 21-year-old went in trailing 3-2 after the primary stanza however was stage on 4 playing cards by the point the bell sounded to finish the second, that means his Olympic hopes got here all the way down to a 3-minute shootout.
It appeared as if the Irish fighter had fired extra photographs throughout these three minutes of that shootout, however the Armenian received the nod 3-2 in that spherical and thus the combat, securing passage to Paris within the course of.
It was a disappointing ending to a sensational Sunday for Irish boxing.
Earlier than McDonagh climbed via the ropes 4 Irish fighters, Jennifer Lehane, Grainne Walsh, Daina Moorehouse and Aidan Walsh had certified.
The 4 wins introduced Eire’s whole of boxers certified to 10, two greater than the earlier report of eight certified for the Rio 2016 video games. It’s additionally the primary time Eire had a full quota of ladies certified for a Video games.
