Just five months on from his narrow defeat to Ishmael Davis at the home of his beloved Spurs, Gilley (19-2-1, 10 KOs) produced arguably the performance of his career to stop Glasgow’s Brown (9-1, 4 KOs) midway through the fifth round.

“I boxed the wrong fight against Ishmael,” Gilley said. “I boxed like a massive doughnut. But my team have been drilling into me non-stop for 10 weeks, ‘Discipline, stick to your boxing.’ When I box, pick my shots, I’m a dangerous man.”

The pair met on the undercard of Nathaniel Collins’ rematch with Cristobal Lorente, which DAZN streamed from OVO Hydro. But it was away fighter Gilley, in his debut up at middleweight, that made the brighter start, boxing on the back foot against the unorthodox Brown.

Gilley had more success in the second, landing with a big left hook and then a crisp one-two combination, which drew a smile from his opponent. “You’re boxing lovely,” his corner told him during the break. Gilley could even afford to clown Brown in the third, looking out into the distance when an attempted right hand missed him by a mile.

By the fourth, Brown’s right eye was badly damaged and he was still struggling to get to grips with Gilley, who continued to box and move with authority. He earned the breakthrough his good work deserved in the second minute of the fifth when a right hook sent Brown to the canvas. The Scotsman beat the count, but Gilley would not be denied, jumping straight back on him and forcing referee Bob Williams to call a halt at 1:35 into the fifth.

Before Gilley’s victory, flawless Royston Barney-Smith claimed the vacant British and Commonwealth junior lightweight title as he crushed Conor McIntosh inside two rounds.

The Southampton man made a scintillating start, landing with three hard left hands from his southpaw stance inside the first minute.

His fellow left-hander dealt well with the early onslaught despite what was one-way traffic throughout the first. McIntosh, who grinned every time Barney-Smith picked him off with a jab, decided to fight fire with fire in the second.

But he was hurt badly midway through the round by a long left hook to the body. McIntosh managed to stay on his feet, yet Barney-Smith could sense an opening and refused to let him off the hook. He forced the first knockdown with a hook to the head, but up McIntosh climbed.

Barney-Smith dropped him again with another vicious body shot, which folded his opponent like a deck chair, but he somehow got to his feet once more. However, the 22-year-old got straight back on the front foot, pinning his opponent against the ropes with another flurry. This time Howard Foster dispensed with the count, waving things off after 2:29 of the second.

“It feels unbelievable,” Barney-Smith said. ”I prepared for a hard, 12-round fight, but what I did in the gym paid off earlier than I thought. I’ve been working on the body shots in the gym and it’s paid off.”

In the first fight on the streamed portion of the card, Dylan Arbuckle made history by winning the British junior featherweight title in only his 10th outing.

After four entertaining rounds, his opponent, Nico Leivars, was pulled out by his corner before the start of the fifth due to a badly disfigured left eye, which was caused by a perfectly placed Arbuckle jab.

“I’m still caught up in the moment,” Arbuckle said. “The main thing is that Nico is alright, but I’m buzzing to get the stoppage. I felt the two of us were just warming up and it was going to be a cracker of a fight.

When asked if he’d give Leivars a rematch, the new champion said, “Absolutely.”

After that, highly touted 18-year-old John Joe Carrigan (3-0, 3 KOs) kept up his perfect start to life in the pros by seeing off Portsmouth’s Harley Hodgetts (5-7, 1 KO) in just 54 seconds.

Earlier, there was an upset in the clash for the vacant Celtic featherweight title as Nigeria-born Dubliner Lateef Bayo Alabi beat Marcus Sutherland (10-1, 6 KOs) via unanimous decision.

In what was his first fight against an opponent with a winning record, Alabi (6-0, 0 KOs) outhustled his opponent to earn scores of 78-74 twice and 79-74.