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Joshua Buatsi into last-16 at World Championships

Team GB boxer Joshua Buatsi advances into the last-16 stage of the World Championships after a 3-0 points win over Korea's Hyeongkyu Kim.

Team GB boxer Joshua Buatsi has advanced into the last-16 stage of the World Championships after a 3-0 points win over Korea's Hyeongkyu Kim on Wednesday.

The light-heavyweight from London won the first round according to two of the judges' scorecards and continued to show his dominance in the second, with his quick movement making it difficult for Kim to make contact.

All three judges gave Buatsi the second following a strong and confident round and it was a similar story in the third as the Brit booked his spot in the next round courtesy of a points victory in Doha.

On Friday, Buatsi will take on second seed Julio La Cruz of Cuba for a spot in the quarter-finals.

Elsewhere at 81kg, Azerbaijan's Teymur Mammadov, who beat Buatsi at the European Games in Baku earlier this year, has received a bye into the round of 16.

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Teymur Mammadov of Azerbaijan celebrates victory over Peter Mullenberg of the Netherlands in the Men's Boxing Light Heavyweight (81kg) Quarter Final during day ten of the Baku 2015 European Games at the Crystal Hall on June 22, 2015
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