By Elliot Foster

Ohara Davies produced a sparkling performance to stop one of British boxing’s most loyal servants.

The Hackney super-lightweight retained his WBC Silver title after ending the challenge of Liverpool stalwart Derry Mathews inside three rounds, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office.

Davies (now 15-0, 12 KOs) caught Mathews with a huge right uppercut in the third round and the referee Victor Louglin had seen enough after two knockdowns, meaning that the 25-year-old kept up his unblemished ledger on the undercard of David Haye’s heavyweight fight against Tony Bellew at London’s O2 Arena.

After the referee called the fight to a halt and the result was confirmed, both fighters took to the apron of the ring to be interviewed by Sky Sports.

And it was there that Mathews, 33, confirmed that he had just taken part in his last fight, saying that it was “the end” and that he wouldn’t box again.

Elsewhere on the card, David Allen scored his second stoppage in seven days.

The Conisbrough heavyweight, who took out Hungary’s Lukasz Rusiewicz in just 31 seconds last weekend, finished David Howe off inside two rounds and is now targeting the British title towards the middle of the year.