Daniel Dubois will face many tougher tests then Ebenezer Tetteh on his rise to the top. The Ghanaian was under the impression that he had come to the Royal Albert Hall, London, for a fight on Friday night, but he was wrong. He had come to get beaten up.

Teteh lasted 130 seconds with Dubois, hit the canvas twice and in a final act of defiance pushed referee Mark Lyson away when the fight was stopped. He should have thanked Lyson, despite the embarrassment that Teteh felt, Lyson saved him from getting hurt.

“It was a great performance,” Dubois said. “I did what I had to do, I worked the jab and everything I did in training I put into practice. I think after every fight I am improving.”

The win handed Dubois the vacant Commonwealth heavyweight title, his seventh belt in 13 professional bouts. Already on the fringes of the world’s top 15, at 22, the Londoner has a lot of time on his side and doesn’t seem in a rush.

Frank Warren, Dubois’s promoter, said that it is starting to get difficult to find opponents. But the plan is to keep busy until the end of 2020, by when he could be breathing down the necks of the likes of Wilder, Ruiz, Fury and Joshua.

“We can’t get any of them at the moment, but by the time they sort themselves out, Daniel will be ready,” Warren said. “The most important thing is that he keep learning.

“When he gets in there he’ll be hopefully well equipped to win a world title. Anyone can make a world title fight, it is about the guy moving forward afterwards, not just saying ‘I fought for it and got knocked out’.

The plan is for Dubois to box again on either December 14 or 21. Beyond that Warren pointed to a possible fight with the winner of a Joe Joyce-Marco Huck fight that has been mandated for the European title. A defence of the British title would seem an obvious option, but no one seems keen to face him.

“Dereck Chisora was offered the fight, so was David Price, but they didn’t want it,” Warren said.

Warren pointed of Nicola Adams’s near year-long lay-off as a reason for her disappointing performance as she drew with Maria Salinas, It was the Mexican’s fourth world title challenge and a second draw to go along with two defeats.

Salinas’s corner were greatly aggrieved that they did not get a decision, but despite the Mexican’s gutsy efforts, Adams’s crisper punching seemed to have earned her the win.

“I thought she won it,” Warren said. “It makes for an obvious rematch, though.”