O2 Arena, London - Olympic medalist and amateur star Katie Taylor (3-0, 2 KOs) continued her progress in the pros with a fifth round stoppage over a game Monica Gentili (6-7, 1 KO), who won her last two contests.

Taylor is already scheduled to return to the ring on April 29th, before 90,000 fans at Wembley - as Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko will battle in the main event for the IBF, WBA, IBO heavyweight titles.

Taylor dominated the fight from the very start, landing good punches and getting away from counters when Gentili would attempt to throw something back. Taylor began to switch up her shots in the second, landing hooks to the head and body.

Gentili was game and trying do get something going. Taylor continued to tag her with hard shots to the head and especially to the body in the third round. The domination continued in the fourth, Taylor sticking and moving as Gentili came forward and ate punches.

In the fifth, Taylor unloaded with a variety of punches that sent Gentili down. Gentili was able to beat the count, but she was still visibly hurt and the referee waved off the contest.

Also on the card, 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.