This past September, boxing’s biggest names gravitated to Las Vegas to watch Terence Crawford stun Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and become the undisputed super middleweight champion at a packed Allegiant Stadium but a young flyweight from Liverpool got the week off to a flying start.

On the Wednesday before Crawford outboxed Canelo and around four miles from the cavernous stadium, Mikie Tallon grabbed his own chance to impress with both hands and beat Mexico's Christian Robles.

It would have been easy for the Joe Gallagher-trained Tallon to get lost in the hype and noise that surrounds a legitimate superfight but his exciting decision victory over Robles made some important people sit up and take notice.

Tallon's reward was a spot on the undercard of this weekend's massive rematch between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn. The 20-year-old Liverpudlian will fight Fezan Shahid (4-2-2) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, live on DAZN pay-per-view.

“Joe was winding me up loads, saying I'm like a big superstar over there,” Tallon (10-0, 1 KO) told The Ring with a laugh as he remembered his time in Las Vegas.

“You had like Devin Haney, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia and all that but people were coming over to me for photos. I was like to Joe, 'What do I do? I don't know what to say.'”

Tallon dropped the solid Robles twice and put in a mature display of smart boxing and aggressive counter punching. His performance was all the more noteworthy given his rushed preparation.

Tallon’s flight were confirmed at the very last minute and Gallagher - who recently announced that he has won a near year-long, brutal battle with stage four cancer - was cleared to fly to Las Vegas just 48 hours before lift-off.

Instead of having a week-long acclimatisation period, Tallon stepped off an 11-hour long flight and directly into a whirlwind of fight week obligations and responsibilities.

“The few days before building up was just like chaos with trying to sort stuff out. From visas to seeing if Joe was able to fly and then we got our flights on the morning we flew. I woke up to a message, I think 6.30am in the morning, saying we had to be at the airport at 8 or 9am so I had to rush and get ready fast,” he said.

“In fight camp, I only had a week and a half of sparring. We landed on the Saturday and fought on the Wednesday so to get over the jet lag and perform like that, I think it just felt like muscle memory. Everything that I've trained all my life for, all the moments in Gallagher's Gym with the lads, it's like everything just fell into place and came together on the night.”

That Tallon was able to hold his focus and perform so well against his career-best opponent speaks volumes to the work he and Gallagher have put in over the past couple of years.

Tallon is one of a number of promising young fighters Gallagher has been quietly developing away from the bright lights. Ring Magazine’s 2015 Trainer of the Year is a constant presence on small hall shows and has concentrated on getting his latest crop of talent invaluable but unglamorous learning rounds against tough, hardened journeymen.

Slowly but surely, these fighters are beginning to break through onto major televised events. Whilst the grander surroundings and extra attention and scrutiny may take some getting used to, they have been perfectly prepared to control whatever happens between the ropes.

“As Joe says in our gym nowadays, it's not about stopping people early on in your career and blasting them out in a round because you don't learn nothing from it,” Tallon said.

“He wants us to get the hard rounds in so that when it comes to these big moments, we can sit there and be confident in ourselves that it's not going to be a struggle.

“I'm never really a nervous person when it comes to fights and stuff like that so I think keeping my cool and not letting any of the pressure get to me helped. It was one of the best moments in my life so far, if not the best.”