Broner vs. Theophane: Live Round-by-Round Results and Highlights

Not a title defense. But still a championship-level performance in the nation's capital.

Former four-division titleholder Adrien Broner easily dismissed would-be challenger Ashley Theophane with a TKO at 1:10 of the ninth round at the DC Armory, but he made more noise after the fight by calling out Theophane's promoter—and his former "big brother"—Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"He's gotta come see me," Broner said, after ranting about supposed disrespect from Mayweather in his direction during the fight's run-up.

Broner had begun the week as the WBA super lightweight champion, but relinquished the belt when he weighed-in four-tenths of a pound over the 140-pound limit. He failed to take the weight off and vacated the championship, though Theophane could have won if it he'd won Friday.

That, though, was never an issue.

The Englishman was game and landed some shots during Broner's lulls, but he was badly hurt by a pair of right hands early in the ninth, took a low left hook and then reeled across the ring before referee Luis Pabon intervened.

Broner is expected to surrender to authorities in his hometown of Cincinnati within days. He'd been wanted in connected with an alleged assault and robbery outside a bowling alley, but was allowed to fight on the condition he give himself up upon returning from Washington to Ohio.

The bout headlined a three-piece card on Spike TV.

In the first two, a pair of prospects furthered their causes with sixth-round wins.

Lanky lightweight Robert Easter Jr. stopped former 130-pound champ Algenis Mendez with a single right hand at 2:43 of the sixth.

In the opener, a scheduled 10-rounder between junior lightweights Gervonta Davis and Guillermo Avila ended 29 seconds into Round 6 when a Davis flurry prompted referee Michelle Myers to intervene.

Davis had scored the fight's only knockdown just before the closing bell in the fifth.