Boxer Ryan Charles felt that his hard work “paid off” after he recorded a seventh straight victory of his professional career with a first-round technical knockout against Mateusz Rybarski.

The Edmonton heavyweight took to the ring at Bethnal Green’s York Hall on Saturday against his Polish opponent who was a stand-in for Steve Bodger and increased his professional record to 7-0.

Charles ended the contest by landing an upper cut that Rybarski was unable to recover from, and he felt that the preparation put in at the gym and in training was the biggest key to his success.

He said: “I think it went really well. So many of the things that I’d been working on paid off. When we were studying his [Rybarski’s] tape I knew that he’d be open to a body shot. I faked a jab upstairs and threw a body shot to the ribs and after that I could tell that he didn’t really want any more.

“From there on, about 30 seconds later, it was just an onslaught of constant punches. The final punch that put him away was an upper cut. He got up on unsteady legs, got to eight on the count and the ref looked at him and waved it off. I was very pleased, and it went well.”

Charles had been due to face Blackburn fighter Bodger, but a late pull out saw him go up against Poland’s Rybarski instead.

The late change in opponent didn’t faze Charles though, who insisted he would have been ready to fight anybody in the ring.

He said: “In terms of myself, I still had the same mindset. It could have been anyone but because I knew I’d trained so hard I was just ready.

“If you’d have asked me before the fight, I thought I’d get a good few rounds out. After we got in the ring there was a little trail off and after the first full jab that I landed I think I saw a bit of blood trickle down his nose and then I knew ‘okay yeah, I’ve got you here’.”

Despite needing only one round to finish the job, this was billed as the first six-round bout of Charles’ professional career, and he is looking to maintain and possibly increase that number as he goes further up the ladder.

He said: “The next fight will be six rounds. I’ll probably have maybe two or three more six-rounders then I’ll look to move onto probably eight or if I get a title shot, depending on which title it is, they’re automatically 10 rounds.

“I know that it [my next fight] is probably going to be mid-December. Hopefully I’ll get confirmation in the next week or so but that’s when we’re aiming for.”