Haye scores TKO of Maccarinelli to unify cruiserweight titles

Posted: Sat Mar 8 10:41 PM

London, England (Sports Network) - David Haye scored a second-round technical knockout of Enzo Maccarinelli to add the WBO cruiserweight title to his WBA and WBC belts in a battle of Britons Saturday night.

Despite blood oozing from the left eye of Haye (21-1, 20 KOs), he nailed Maccarinelli with a hard right to the face and followed that with several punches as his opponent staggered. Maccarinelli's head came through the ropes, but when he got to his feet, referee John Keane called a halt to the bout at the 2:04 mark.

Haye was coming off a seventh-round TKO of Jean-Marc Mormeck last November 10.

Maccarinelli (28-2, 21 KOs), who won the WBO title on July 8, 2006 from Marcelo Fabian Dominguez, was making the fifth defense of his belt.