Miles Shinkwin got back to winning ways with victory over Eric Mokonzo in London.

He unleashed a beauty of a body shot to stop his opponent in the fifth round of the six-round contest at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Saturday to notch his 13th win in 14 contests as a professional.

It means Shinkwin’s only blemish remains that defeat to Hosea Burton for the British Light Heavyweight title on his previous outing.

But he put that behind him as he safely navigated a tricky opponent to put another digit in his own impressive win column and prove that his defeat to Burton is just a temporary setback to his ambitions.

Afterwards there was no self congratulation from the Bushey fighter. He treated it as job done and another stepping stone towards getting back to where he wants to be and be in a position to be winning titles. After the fight he tweeted: “Got the win. Far from impressive but managed to get a tough, game fella out of there. Onwards we go.”

The Bushey fighter showed his class as he finished off the job in style with a terrific bodyshot to floor his opponent just when the fight was in danger of going the distance.

But Shinkwin knew the contest was drifting and took matters into his own hands with the punch.

He said: “He wasn’t getting up from that. He was down for a couple of minutes.”

The shot was a touch of class and ended the resistance of a stubborn opponent who was beginning to look like he was going to last the duration.

Shinkwin said of the fight: “It was messy but it was all about getting the win. He was spoiling and holding on and hitting on the back of the head and it looked as though it was going to be one of those nights when I would win on points but in the end I pulled out what I needed to.”

But despite total strangers coming out to him at the end of the fight and eulogising over his winning punch, Shinkwin was much more matter of fact about his victory.

He said: “It’s hard to get too excited at this stage. Once I get to the stage where I should be then it will be different.”

Saturday’s fight was all about getting the win for Shinkwin who insists his confidence had not been hit by his title defeat.

He said: “I don’t think my confidence was affected because I knew I had under-performed in that fight.

“If anything, it improved my confidence because I just thought what I would have been able to achieve if I had performed to my normal levels, so I never felt down about my ability, I just felt down about my performance.”