IBF super middleweight champion Jeff Lacy was on top of Runcorn's Robin Reid from the opening bell in Florida

Reid, who was intent on holding Lacy at every opportunity, was floored by a low blow in the third round

Reid was decked twice in the fifth following a headbutt by the Englishman which drew howls from the St Petersburg natives

Reid, 34, was felled in the sixth and seventh and his trainer Bryan Hughes pulled him out before the eighth

Lacy, 28, is now careering towards a unification match with Joe Calzaghe in Wales in November