Luke Campbell cruised into the last 16 of the European Championships in Ankara on Saturday while there was also a superb international debut from Finchley super-heavyweight Anthony Joshua.

Hull bantamweight Campbell, unbeaten in international competition since 2009, beat Latvia's Dimitrijs Gutmans 20-6, steadily extending his lead throughout a one-sided contest.

Campbell, who won the title in 2008 but was denied the chance to defend it due to injury, said: "Things are going well at the moment but I need to continue the good form through this event and beyond to the Olympics."

Joshua hinted he could yet provide the answer to Great Britain's higher-weight woes as he pulled off a superb 23-16 win over Germany's former world junior silver medallist Eric Brechlin.

In his first major senior competition, Joshua controlled the contest with a booming right hand which forced Brechlin to take a standing count midway through the second round.

But there was disappointment for Scarborough heavyweight Danny Price, who performed solidly against young Russian Abdulkhamid Nurmagomedov but fell to a 19-14 defeat.

Welsh light-welterweight Fred Evans was an impressive 17-8 winner over Denmark's Torben Holdt Keller but fellow Welshmen Sean McGoldrick and Chris Jenkins, plus Scots Joe Ham and Aston Brown, bowed out.

Ireland's excellent start continued with four more winners on day two of the competition. John Joe Nevin, Willie McLaughlin, Con Sheehan and Cathal McMonagle made it five wins out of five for the Irish so far.