Joyce beaten as Lionhearts fall

BySportsbeat

Published 10/04/2015 at 09:00 GMT

Joe Joyce was on the wrong end of a split decision as he lost his unbeaten World Series of Boxing record and the British Lionhearts fell to a 4-1 defeat to the Russian Boxing Team.

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Joyce has been in fine form this season but couldn't find a way past Babanin Maksim – denting his hopes of sealing early qualification for Rio 2016.

The evening started brightly for the Lionhearts with Kelvin de la Nieve outboxing Vasilii Vetkin to give the Brits the lead.

But that was as good as it got as Adlan Abdurashidov levelled the scores with a unanimous decision victory over Oualid Belaoura in the lightweight division. The event also saw the WSB debut of Scott Fitzgerald as the welterweight came up against Radzhab Butaev.

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