Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou undercard fight stopped after Brit suffers horror eye injury

MARK CHAMBERLAIN continued his rapid rise up the lightweight ranks with a 15th win that left brave Gavin Gwynne with one horrid eye injury.

The 25-year-old Portsmouth southpaw inflicted the wound with one of the very first punches of the Saudi Arabia bout and the tough Welshman never recovered.

Gavin Gwynne suffered a nasty-looking eye injury

His cutman did his best to reduce the swelling

Gwynne suffered the injury in the first round

His team threw in the towel in the fifth round

And after a handful of checks on the peppered peeper, common sense finally prevailed and the brave 33-year-old was pulled out of the fire in round five.

Gwynne’s right eye didn’t last the opening round after a barrage of the Pompey beanpole’s long and rasping shots left it a swollen and bloody mess.

Chamberlain and his long limbs were ruthless from distance and clubbing up close with uppercuts.

Referee Howard Foster inspected Gwynn’s eye before he gave Chamberlain another three minutes to ping it from all angles and gave the timekeeper the nod to carry on.

Gwynne was beyond brave to see out the second too, his cutman had to work wonders to keep him in the contest after more punishment.

Before the third started, Foster called the ringside doctor up to the apron for a second opinion and he too permitted the one-sided show to go on.

But it was clear to everyone in the Kingdom Arena that Gwynne was boxing with half his sight and destined to lose.

And thankfully in round five – with their man pinned on the ropes and taking a pounding – Gwynne’s team threw in the towel.

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Hapless Foster missed the white flag of surrender for long enough to Chamberlain to land a few more unanswered blows.

Until cries of “towel, towel” helped the blundering official to stop the onslaught.