Ireland's John Joe Nevin and Great Britain's Luke Campbell will resume one of the most intense and engrossing rivalries in amateur boxing today when they fight for Olympic bantamweight gold at the ExCeL Arena at 8.45pm.

John Joe Nevin set up the fight of the Olympic boxing finals when he out-fought world champion Lazaro Alvarez in a thrilling semi-final bout at the ExCeL yesterday.

John Joe Nevin is hoping to emulate compatriot Katie Taylor with Olympic gold after seeing off world champion Estrada Alvarez to reach the final of the men’s bantamweight division.

Boxing’s world governing body AIBA has upheld a second appeal in the Olympic boxing tournament and reinstated American welterweight Errol Spence at the expense of India’s Krishan Vikas.

Japan were last night successful with an appeal against Satoshi Shimizu’s controversial Olympic Games bantamweight defeat to Magomed Abdulhamidov at ExCeL.