Gary Cully

WBA International Middleweight title: Caoimhin Agyarko (10-0) v Juan Carlos Rubio (18-1) OBSTINATE Mexican Rubio taught Caoimhin Agyarko that he won't be ...

Vasquez recovered some ground in the fourth but Cully kept it long and used his reach to club him as he tried to close the distance and he finished it 41 seconds in the fifth with a sweetly-timed left hook. With the swelling under his left eye worsening, the ringside doctor was bought in and the referee called off a one-sided beat-down at 2.27 in the fifth. Two minutes the third he walked into a straight left and his glove touched the canvas (referee Steve Gray correctly ruled it a knockdown) as he just about stayed on his feet. He continued to attack and midway through the eighth finally caught up with Rubio with a series of thumping left hooks. Rubio was going nowhere and Agyarko goes to 11-0 after a good night's work. Up against a southpaw for the first time in his pro career, Agyarko speared a right hand through Rubio's high guard and took the centre of the ring made the running in a cagey opener.