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Qais Ashfaq: "I sent out a statement"

Team England boxer Qais Ashfaq claims that he "sent out a statement" by beating Scotland's Joe Ham in the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Games.

Team England boxer Qais Ashfaq believes that he "sent out a statement" by beating Scotland's Joe Ham in the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.

Ashfaq is now guaranteed at least a bronze medal in the Bantamweight section, but he has insisted that his eyes are firmly on gold.

"Yeah I sent out a statement. I have boxed him four times now and beat him three times. I feel like I sent out a statement by beating him comfortably in his hometown," he told Sports Mole.

"Coming into the ring I wasn't even thinking about the bronze medal, as long as you keep your head in the game and keep training hard and get the tactics right then I can change the colour of the medal."

Ashfaq's semi-final opponent is Kenyan Benson Gicharu Njangiru.

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Qais Ashfaq of Team GB poses for a portrait during the Team GB kitting out event ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Loughborough University on July 3, 2012
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