SEAN Lazzerini is over the moon to be the final boxer selected to represent team Scotland at the Commonwealth Games next year. The first nine members of the boxing squad were announced last month but Lazzerini was forced to take part in a box-off against Boris Crighton for the -81kg spot.

However, the 20-year-old who is one of the Sunday Herald’s ‘Six to Follow’, secured the win and admits that he could not be happier to have booked his seat on the plane to Australia.

“It feels brilliant to be selected,” the Glaswegian said. “There was a lot of pressure but I used that in a positive way,” he said. “I secured a really convincing win. I showed everybody that I’m a guy who should be going to the Games.”

With the box-off now safely out of the way, Lazzerini can turn his attention to making sure that he will be at his best by the time he makes his Commonwealth Games debut.

“I think that will have been my last fight before Gold Coast,” he said. “But we will have test matches over the next few months and also some really intense training so I’m ready for the Games.”