Boxing twins Pat and Luke McCormack like to do everything together - both winning silver at last year’s European Championships and both looking good for Commonwealth Games gold here.

The 22-year olds won their quarter-finals with ease yesterday to guarantee they will return with a medal.

But nothing less than upgrading their silvers from last year’s Europeans will do for the Birtley Boxing Club pair.

Luke McCormack silenced a vocal Aussie home crowd as he despatched home favourite Liam Wilson.

And his brother was equally clinical as he swatted away the challenge of tricky Uganda rival Musa Bwogi.

Wilson picked up a cut on his left eye during one ferocious exchange but McCormack’s speed and accuracy proved decisive in a niggly contest.

Roared on by a partisan crowd, Wilson started to find his range as the fight went into the third round but the final points decision was unanimous.

He will now fight Namibia’s Jonas Jonas for a place in this weekend’s finals on Friday.

“It’s a bronze medal but I’m not even bothered about bronze, I want the gold - nothing less,” he said.

“The crowd was pretty noisy out there but I just wanted to shut them up.

“He said he remembered sparring me years ago but he won’t forget this now. I thought I boxed really well and I even got to showboat a bit, to remind the judges how easy I was finding it.”

Welterweight Pat McCormick watched his brother’s fight back in the athletes’ village and it clearly inspired him.

He took the early initiative in his welterweight fight against tricky - but technically dubious - Ugandan Musa Bwogi.

Bwogi was no walkover and he came in swinging shots from every angle in a bid to unsettle McCormack, who doggedly stuck to his gameplan to progress with another unanimous decision.

He now faces India’s Manoj Kumar, who seems to have brought scores of vocal supporters, after his split decision win over Australia’s Terry Nikolas.

“I’ve boxed the Indian before at the Worlds qualifier two years ago,” he said.

“I won every round but we’ve both moved up a weight since then. He’s a decent boxer but if I perform then I will beat him.

“I thought I performed well. It was a different sort of opponent, he didn’t really come in much and was a bit stronger than the last guy but I got the dominant win I was looking for.

“I never emptied the tank, I’ve got plenty more to give.

“I watched Luke on the television and I love his showboating, I think he gave the crowd something to enjoy even though he beat the Aussie.”

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