Egan gets early warning for Cuban bout

CUBAN heavyweight Jose Larduet Gomez, issued a warning to Ireland’s Olympic silver medallist, Kenny Egan, when he stopped Lubos Valecky (Czech Republic) two minutes and 20 seconds into the first round of his preliminary bout at the World boxing championships in Baku yesterday.

Larduet was leading 14-2 when the referee stopped the contest and, on this performance, he will be fancied to improve on the bronze medal he won at light heavyweight at the world championships in Milan in 2009.

In 2008 he won a gold medal at the World youth championship in Mexico where Ireland’s Ray Moylette took gold in the lightweight division and he won his first Cuban senior title in 2009.