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‘I’m hoping there’s another big turn-out and big support’: Jude Gallagher relishing semi-final showdown in Glasgow
DEFENDING Commonwealth Games champion Jude Gallagher has secured at least a bronze medal after coming through a gruelling encounter with Albert Ngulube in Wednesday’s quarter-final.The rough, tough Zambian held a significant height advance over the man from Newtownstewart - lightweight gold medallist in Birmingham four years ago - and Gallagher had to box smart to progress.He was superb in the first and second, nullifying his opponent’s threat, before seeing the job out in the third. Somehow, one judge scored all three rounds to Ngulube but, into a semi-final and without sustaining any kind of damage, the ‘Tyrone Tornado’ was happy to get the job done ahead of Friday’s clash with the magnificently named Tryagain Morning Ndevelo from Namibia. “I knew coming into it he was wild – loopy, tall
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