Heartbroken light-heavyweight boxer Callum Peters thought he had done enough to down a world champion with his barnstorming Olympic debut -- but the judges left him "gutted" on another tough day in the ring for Australia.
Peters, the all-action Adelaide fighter who never takes a backward step, gave teak-tough Nurbek Oralbay, who lifted the world title in Tashkent last year, all the trouble he could handle on Tuesday, even forcing the Kazakh to take a standing count in the second of three belting rounds.
But though many observers felt the 21-year-old had done just enough to become the first Indigenous fighter to win at the Olympics for Australia after a blistering final-round effort, Oralbay still edged the 3-2 verdict by the narrowest of margins.
