BARRY-boxer Lee Selby has vowed we haven’t seen anything yet despite a blistering display at London’s O2 Arena to secure a world title shot.

He stopped Joel Brunker in nine rounds at to earn an IBF featherweight world title match.

Selby outclassed Brunker for nine one-sided rounds and can now sit and wait to find out when and who he will be fighting for the title.

Russia’s Evgeny Gradovich is the current champion and he defends against Jayson Velez in November.

Selby’s ninth-round finish was clinical and showed that after a quiet start, he is now ready to mix it with the very best in the featherweight world.

The 27-year-old vacated his European title to help set him on his way to a shot at the world title.

Selby’s victory – the Argus had him winning seven of the first eight rounds – came virtue of an onslaught in the ninth that showed Selby’s entire dazzling array of attributes.

He suckered Brunker in after a break and hammered home a left body shot that landed with a sickening thud as the Australian – who showed terrific fortitude throughout despite being outclassed, finally wilted.

Selby didn’t rush in pursuing the stoppage, merely picking off Brunker with clever feints and accurate blows.

The referee stepping in with Brunker comprehensively bested.

Selby is already known in his Newport gym as the Welsh Floyd Mayweather and Tony Borg and his St Joe’s team, not to mention manager Chris Sanigar, can now look forward to Selby’s career going to new heights.

“I don’t think that was the best of me yet, there is a lot more to come,” he said.

“As soon as I bring my sparring form in the gym into the ring you’ll see a different side of me, one that can mix it with any featherweight in the world.

“That was good, but come down to the gym and watch me spare and you’d be shocked.

“Everyone said Brunker would be my biggest test and I think I passed with flying colours and I will do the same to Gradovich, I think Brunker was as tough a test as Gradovich will be.

“I wanted the stoppage, I’ve had a bit of criticism from a few people – partly justified – and I wanted to put on a show for them.

“I find it so easy in fights to coast through and just win on points and in a final eliminator for a world title I wanted to show I was worthy of the chance.

“I am 100 per cent confident of beating Gradovich and becoming world champion.”

Manager Chris Sanigar was proud of his charge with promoter Eddie Hearn hinting the world title fight could be set for the UK.

“It was a big test on paper but Lee boxed to orders just like he has in his last few fights, getting the rounds in, learning to box so that now he is ready for that world title shot,” Sanigar said.

“Gradovich boxes all over the world, he boxes in November and then Lee Selby is next for him, so why not do it over here (in the UK),” Hearn commented.

“It was a great win, a quality, quality performance and so nice to get the stoppage.

“Lee coasts through rounds, I can’t remember the last time I saw him lose a round.

“To get the stoppage against Brunker, a tough, tough man, with a 27-0 record, yet Lee just cruised through it.

“He’s ready to be a world champion and he’ll beat Gradovich in next year.”

Elsewhere on the card, Anthony Joshua pummelled veteran fighter Denis Bakhtov for one-and-a-half rounds before a referee’s stoppage delivered him the WBC international heavyweight title.

The 24-year-old from Watford, a gold medallist at the 2012 Olympic Games, ruthlessly punished his Russian opponent until, one minute into the second round, he was granted a TKO.

Bakhtov, now 34, had not been stopped legitimately in nine years heading into the fight at London’s O2 Arena. His face was reddened within seconds of Saturday night’s bout.

Joshua told Sky Sports 1: “It only went two rounds but I just wanted to hurt him.

“He hadn’t been stopped so I just wanted to see what he could take.

“He was a strong guy and he wasn’t an easy opponent but I wanted to make light work of him.”