Agbeko Decisions Darchinyan

With scores of 116-111, 114-113, 114-113, IBF bantam weight champion King Kong 'Joseph' Agbeko defeated WBC/IBF/WBA super flyweight champion Vic 'The Raging Bull' Darchinyan last night in Florida.
The two traded power punches in the first 3 rounds with Darchinyan attempting to over power the bigger Agbeko. Agbeko opened a small cut near Darchinyan's left eye and he thus appeared to slow down in the four.

In the fifth round Agbeko worked Darchinyan's body and busted his nose. Darchinyan improved in the sixth but could do nothing to stop Agbeko's right hand from his southpaw stance. In the seventh, an error on the behalf of the timekeeper meant the round went for a full four minutes in which Agbeko worked well, swelling Darchinyan's face only to have this ruined by a wrongly judged knock down, after Darchinyan pushed Agbeko to the floor.

In the eighth Agbeko rocked Darchinyan only to be rocked himself in the final seconds of the round. But in the ninth Darchinyan successfully began using his right jab to set up his powerful left hand.

In the tenth a clash of heads opened a nasty cut above Darchinyan's right eye as the two fighters brawled. This brawling set the trend for the next two rounds as both sought knock outs. In the twelfth they swung to the final bell with Vic looking the more tired of the two.