RYAN Martin sent a chilling message to Faheem Khan as he claimed a second round knockout at the GL1 Leisure Centre on Saturday night.

The 21-year-old welterweight was at his spiteful best as he demolished Linas Mestavicius inside two rounds.

Mestavicius, who came to the ring having won his only fight by stoppage, was sent crashing to the canvas midway through the second session following a thunderous left hook that saw the Lithuanian left with his head outside the ring.

But former Walcot and England amateur Martin, who tackles Khan for a welterweight championship title at the Oasis Leisure Centre on October 24, made virtually every shot count in a stunning display.

“This is the pro game, you have to hurt your opponent and not let them come on to you,” Martin said after the fight.

“I sent him crashing, I knew when I saw him going down he wasn’t getting back up.

“If I catch some clean they are going (down) - that is what Faheem has got to look out for.”

However, despite his stunning display on Saturday, Martin felt that he was missing with too many shot as he went in for the kill.

“I started to catch with the big shots in the first round, burst his nose, I knew that was a confidence killer for him,” said Martin, who has now got two stoppage wins under his belt in his unblemished five-fight record.

“I missed with a couple because I was getting little bit trigger happy because I knew that I could get him out of there.

“I would have liked to have tidied up on a couple of shots, start to pop out few jabs and some straight rights, but I got him with a big shot so I can’t complain.”

Stable-mate Danny Bharj also put on an impressive display after he out-pointed the durable veteran Ibrar Riyaz.

The 27-year-old light-welterweight was making his second outing in the paid ranks after turning professional earlier in the year.

Bharj demonstrated some slick footwork and solid combinations on his way to a 40-36 points win, however, a flurry of punches from Riyaz in the third round saw the former junior ABA champion needing to make sure of his win in the final session in an all-action three minutes.

“I was a little worried about getting tired, it was a lazy (round in the third), but I made up for it in the last round, I put everything into it,” Bharj said.

“Rich (Farnan, trainer) told me that I had lost the third, even though he knew that I won it, but I wasn’t going to lose it on the last round with all the hard work that I’d done and got the win.

“We knew that he wasn’t going to stop, I think the in the first or second round I hurt and him, wobbled him.

“Overall I can’t say that I’m not pleased with how that went.”