Super lightweight contender Louis Greene scored the win of his career to date with a stunning and devastating first-round knockout win over previously-undefeated Jack McGann.

Kent’s Greene, 17-4 (11 KOs) started quickly, closing the distance, thundering shots in to the body and then crashing in an overhand right – punching through the target – that dropped McGann heavily. Referee Kieran McCann called it off after 1:29 of the first session.

Liverpool’s McGann falls to 9-1-1 (6 KOs).

“I thought it was going to go 10 hard rounds, that was what I was expecting,” said Greene, having won the final preliminary bout at the Kingdom Arena on the Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou bill in Saudi Arabia.

“Every single person who mentioned me mentioned before my four losses, they don’t mention the 16 wins and the 10 men I’ve knocked out. I trained hard for this. I gave up my job to put on a show out here. I was digging holes, fitting water mains. Me and my dad come from nothing. I was on my way to prison, my dad’s a postman and now my dad’s here with me, sharing me all of this.” 

Salford’s Roman Fury, a 27-year-old who has boxed at cruiserweight, is now 4-0 (2 KOs) after the southpaw heavyweight from Salford, UK, defeated Czech Martin Svarc.

Fury landed a couple of good left hands in the first round, and while he largely did as he pleased, Svarc landed a couple of clubbing rights in the last, although he bled from the nose having been caught on his way in. 

It was a decent learning fight for Fury, who won 39-37. Svarc is now 2-1 (1 KO).

“Every fight is a learning fight, this kid came to win, I’m getting hard learning fights, so I’m happy with it,” said Fury. “I’m enjoying this life, from where I come from to where I am now. I’m buzzing.”

Fury was walked to the ring by family members including brother Tyson Fury, Tommy Fury and John Fury.

Ziyad Almaayouf is now 5-0 (1) after a steady six-round win over Mexican Christian Lopez Flores, 14-35-2 (12), who lives in Slovakia.

After two rounds, Almaayouf – based in Los Angeles but from Saudi Arabia – was told by trainer Buddy McGirt that he was making the fight harder than it needed to be. 

Almaayouf, who won on the lone scorecard 60-54, was clipped by occasional right hands throughout, and he lost his mouthpiece when caught by a left hook in the fifth, but Almaayouf largely controlled proceedings with his jab.

Flores already has another date in the diary, boxing in Swindon in the UK in April.

Ukraine heavyweight Andrii “Rampage” Novytskyi started to successfully slot home some right hands on Juan Torres, a chunky southpaw from Texas, in the third and what turned out to be final round of their fight, which opened the big Saudi Arabia show.

A right hand that landed high on Torres’s head put him down on to one knee where he stayed until referee Victor Loughlin counted to 10. 

Novytskyi is now 10-0 (9 KOs), Torres is 11-6-1 (4 KOs).