Nevin feels no pressure as he sets up dream final

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.

In the other semi-final Luke Campbell, the 5ft 11ins bantamweight from Hull, beat Japan’s Satoshi Shimizu 20-11 to set up the predicted Ireland-England final.

Yesterday’s result means the Mullingar man now becomes the third bantamweight in Irish boxing history to win an Olympic silver medal after John McNally (1952) and Wayne McCullough (1992).