By Elliot Foster

Luke Blackledge scored a stoppage to keep hold of his belt.

The Accrington super-middleweight ended the challenge of Ishmael Tetteh in side five rounds, exclusively live on BoxNation.

Blackledge, who moved to 21-2-2 (7 KOs), retained his Commonwealth crown against the Ghanaian, as part of the undercard to Jack Catterall’s WBO Inter-Continental super-lightweight title defence against Joe Hughes at the Premier Suite at Bolton Wanderers’ Macron Stadium.

‘Robbo’ was iced inside a round for the same belt three years ago but has come back from the defeat at the hands of Rocky Fielding to become a better fighter.

Tetteh, who has the interesting nickname of ‘The Black Roy Jones Jr.’, is known in the UK, having previously fought Martin Murray back in 2013.

And despite having his own moments of success during the fight, Tetteh seemed to drop to the floor under, let’s say, not a lot of pressure from Blackledge.

There were a succession of shots from Blackledge, but the one after which Tetteh touched down didn’t seem to land.

Anyhow, the referee, Terry O’Connor, reached the count of 10, counted the visitor out and called a halt to the fight.

Elsewhere, Kiryl Relikh advanced his unbeaten ledger with a glittering display as he retained his WBA Inter-Continental super-lightweight crown.

The Ricky Hatton-trained Belarusian man, 26, was sensational from the opening stages until the towel came in midway through the fourth.

Relikh dominated his Brazilian counterpart, landing left hooks to the body at will and nearly ending his challenge in the opener.

But 28-year-old Joaquim Carneiro Batista, who has yet to record a victory outside of his home country, was as tough as they come and rode it out.

However, he couldn’t avoid the skill and power of Relikh, no matter what he did, and was outclassed throughout.

His corner had seen enough after three-and-a-bit rounds, pulling their man out and saving him from further punishment as he slipped to 23-8 (21 KOs).

Relikh, who hasn’t gone the distance since September, 2012, is now 21-0 (19 KOs).

And Wythenshawe’s Macaulay McGowan moved into double figures with a hard-fought eight-round points win.

The Arnie Farnell-trained man, who is just 20 and now 10-0 (1 KO), ground out a 78-74 decision against Chris Jenkinson, who slips to 8-32-2 (3 KOs).

Afterwards, he watched his gym-mate Ciaran McVarnock destroy Ruslans Berdimuradovs, with two knockdowns, inside a round.

McVarnock, who had been out of action since last November before this outing, is now 6-0-1 after claiming the first stoppage of his professional career, while Berdimuradovs, the 28-year-old Latvian southpaw, dropped to 9-8 (8 KOs).

Boxing Scene understands that the British Boxing Board of Control could withhold the purse of Burdimuradovs, pending video analysis and investigation.