THE Commonwealth Games now beckon for Toronto schoolboy Manyang Dut, who won the Australian junior middleweight title at the Australian Amateur Boxing Championships at the weekend.
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Dut, 17, stopped his southpaw opponent, Kolby Johnston, of Queensland, with a crisp right uppercut in the third round of their gold medal bout in Mackay, Queensland.
"Manyang buckled Johnston earlier in the third round, and the referee put a standing eight count on him," Dut's co-trainer Shane Wells said.
"But he let him fight again, and that's when Manyang moved in and finished it."
Wells said Dut, a year 11 student at Toronto High School, was ecstatic with the win.
The young boxer also executed his camp's fight plan perfectly.
"I thought that the other boy would try to come in close and put pressure on Manyang," Wells said.
Wells told Manyang that a right uppercut would be the perfect counter to Johnston's advances.
Johnston was the veteran of more than 200 fights in outback Queensland in the Fred Brophy boxing tent, Wells said.
Dut would now focus on earning selection for Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Wells said.
"I don't think we'll have a problem getting to the Games, but if that doesn't work out we'll turn pro," he said.