After his polished TKO win over Bulgaria's Georgi Iliev, Darren Sutherland is looking forward to a short holiday before returning to training on 10 January.
Sutherland is taking his parents, Tony and Linda, on a week's break to Tenerife to recharge his batteries ahead of his second professional outing in Manchester on 6 March on the undercard of the Jamie Moore v Michele Piccirillo European light middleweight title fight.
Reflecting on the first round victory over Iliev, the Dublin middleweight said: 'I wouldn't have minded doing a few more rounds. People ask me do I have the killer instinct but I saw he was starting to go and then it just kicked in and I had to get him out of there.
'I was trying to go another round if I could but I said no, boom, you're going. You don't get paid for overtime. I can only beat whoever Frank (Maloney) puts in front of me.
'I talked a good talk and it was time to walk the walk. I hope people are excited about that and they get behind me and follow me on this journey.
'I know that was low level opposition starting out but I want to become a world professional champion and bring the title back to Ireland - that is my ambition.
'I'm just going to keep working hard. I do my job in the ring and Frank does his outside. Everybody's happy.'
Sutherland's performance sent the 1,200 spectators at the Dublin City University sports hall home happy and the 26-year-old revealed that he will almost certainly be fighting again on home soil in 2009.
'I will be back again for sure. We're guaranteed at least two fights a year in Ireland. We'll be back again at the back end of next year.
'It was great to see the reception I had, the fans really turned out in force. I think I've shown Frank and Sky TV that there is an audience here for me. Hopefully we'll be back sooner rather than later.'
Asked his opinion on Sutherland's debut display, trainer Brian Lawrence said: 'It was a good performance for his first fight. He took a couple of silly punches but we'll iron all that out. For his next fight, he'll be more cooler, more slicker and more deadly.'
Promoter Maloney, who saw Sutherland's potential at the Beijing Olympics, was suitably impressed.
'That jab was like watching Lennox Lewis' jab again. That jab is like a right hand. That jab will take him all the way to the top, no doubt about it,' he said of his new charge.
'He doesn't get paid for overtime so he got it finished quick. It was a first class show. For me it was a great success, I had three very good winners.'
One of Maloney's other winners was Rendall Munroe who had the third defence of his European super-bantamweight title. Munroe, a binman from Leicester, stopped Italy's Fabrizio Trotta in the fifth round of their contest.
Also on the undercard, Dublin bantamweight Paul Hyland scored a points victory over Eugene Heagney for his 13th win in 14 pro fights.
Maloney said: 'Rendall Munroe stamped his authority on his weight division and we would love to come back here. We'd definitely be willing to come back here and fight Bernard Dunne.
'This young man (Paul Hyland), who had a successful night and has done a promotional deal with our company, will fight Ian Napa in the not too distant future.
'I think we have the making of a great stable of boxers here and I think real "big time" boxing is going to come back here to Dublin.'
