Great Britain's Joshua Buatsi has said that he was suffering from nerves ahead of his last-16 clash with Elshod Rasulov.
Buatsi produced the best performance of Team GB's boxers in Rio de Janeiro as he floored Rasulov three times on the way to an excellent win, but the light-heavyweight has suggested that he did not expect to register a stoppage win over the Uzbekistan fighter.
The 23-year-old told reporters: "I wasn't expecting to knock him out. I was just trying to dominate and dominate. The pressure was getting to him and I thought I should just carry on. I hurt him with a shot and just capitalised on it.
"I was absolutely nervous going into that fight. I don't know why. I got in the ring and I was proper nervous but I got in there and the ring became smaller to me and I saw no one but him."
Buatsi is next in action on Sunday evening, when he faces Algeria's Abdelhafid Benchabla.
Darren Plant
