• Submitted by: manso
• Sports
• 02 / 14 / 2011

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(AFP) – BERLIN — Cuba's Yoan Pablo Hernandez on Saturday saw off Frenchman Steve Herelius on a seventh-round knockout to win the WBA interim cruiserweight belt after a bout outside Duesseldorf.

Herelius was hampered by a self-inflicted Achilles tendon injury from the fourth round reprise and was reduced to all but fighting on one leg.

Hernandez took his career record to 24 wins - 13 of them by knockout - for one defeat as he saw off his fellow southpaw.

The Cuban challenger deployed greater range throughout and 1min 19sec into the seventh he was able to savour victory in front of a crowd who claimed the Latin American resident of Germany since 2005 as one of their own.

Herelius had taken the interim title last July after Germany's Firat Arslan retired in the 11th round.

After dominating the early rounds to establish a healthy points lead the Cuban rocked his rival with a left counter and another left finished him off.

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