Caoimhin Agyarko moved down to super-welterweight and extended his unbeaten record to 12 fights as he claimed a landslide ten-round decision over Poland’s Lukasz Maciec on the Chisora-Pulev undercard at the O2 Arena, London. 

It was a routine win for the Irishman who was content to outbox Maciec, using his faster hands and better variety to dominate, even though it was not the sort of performance to tun many heads. 

Maciec’s threat came in his right hand but every time he shaped up to throw it, Agyarko moved away. 

It made for a very samey fight. Agyarko worked behind his jab, stepped into range to throw a combination then backed away. The one time Maciec really seemed to nail Agyarko with a decent right, late in the sixth round, he failed to follow it up. 

In the main, though, Agyarko won just about everything without ever threatening to stop Maciec because he never really put him under constant pressure. 

Towards the end of the eighth round, Agyarko began loading up on his punches and Maciec began to look slow on his feet. 

Early in the ninth, a hook and uppercut seemed to rock Maciec, but Agyarko spent so long looking for a follow-up that he was caught by a left hook. ;

Agyarko upped the workrate in the last round, but Maciec had the finish line in sight and saw it out. 

Marcus McDonnell and Guillermo Perez Pineda scored it 100-90, Yordan Ezekiev had it 99-93. The referee was Steve Gray. 

It won Agyarko the WBA international belt at a second weight. 

Heavyweight prospect Fabio Wardley made short work of late sub Chris Healey, as he stopped him in the second round to stretch his unbeaten record to 14 fights (13 stoppages). 

Healey, who came in at late notice after original opponent Kingsley Ibeh was unable to get into the UK, put up some resistance but was completely outgunned. 

Wardley took his time in the opener, as Healy tried to lead off. But a right down the pipe had Healey looking for cover, as Wardley followed up with shots to the body before a right sent Healey tottering to the floor. 

He managed to see out the rest of the round but Wardley jumped on him at the start of the second, landing a series of right uppercuts and hooks, the last one landing when Healey was most of the way to the floor. That prompted the towel to come in from Healey’s corner, but as Healey got up, referee Mark Bates went through the formality of counting to eight before waving it off at 0:40 of the round. 

For seven rounds of his heavyweight eight-rounder with Kevin Nicolas Espindola, Sol Dacres looked happy to go through the motions. He kept Espindola at distance, working in ones and twos. In round eight he opened up and nearly stopped the Argentinian. 

Espindola wasn’t giving him much to aim at, but his main contribution, apart from soaking up punishment, was two left hooks that caught Dacres clean when he stayed too close in the second and sixth rounds. 

Referee Kieran McCann scored it 80-72 as Dacres moved to 4-0. 

In the show-opener of an abbreviated Before The Bell section, after Felix Cash pulled out of his middleweight ten-rounder through illness, saw super-bantamweight Yousuf Ibrahim record a straight-forward points win over Francisco Rodriguez, of Spain, to move to 2-0 as a pro. Referee Chas Coakley scored it 40-36. 

Ron Lewis is a senior writer for BoxingScene. He was Boxing Correspondent for The Times, where he worked from 2001-2019 - covering four Olympic Games and numerous world title fights across the globe. He has written about boxing for a wide variety of publications worldwide since the 1980s.