NEWARK – A 41-year-old Newark native extended his winning streak to five fights Saturday night at Prudential Center.

Veteran welterweight Michael Anderson dropped Mexican veteran Noe Lopez twice in the third round and stopped him in the first fight FS1 aired as part of the Vito Mielnicki Jr.-Nicholas DeLomba undercard. Referee Harvey Dock halted the action 33 seconds into the third round of a scheduled six-round, 147-pound bout.

Anderson (22-3-1, 16 KOs), an East Orange resident, has won five straight fights since junior middleweight contender Greg Vendetti defeated him by unanimous decision in a 12-rounder that took place in July 2019. Lopez, of Spring, Texas, lost his third straight bout and slipped to 10-5-1 (4 KOs).

Anderson unloaded a right hand that sent Lopez to the seat of his trunks almost as soon as the third round started. A stunned Lopez answered Dock’s count, but Anderson quickly caught him with a left hook that dropped Lopez again.

He couldn’t beat Dock’s count a second time and lost by knockout for the third time in six years as a pro.

After a competitive first round, Anderson nailed Lopez with a right hand with just over a minute on the clock in the second round.

In the bout after Anderson’s win, welterweight prospect Travon Marshall stopped journeyman Brian Jones in the fourth round of a four-rounder FS1 televised.

Marshall (4-0, 3 KOs), of Capitol Heights, Maryland, landed an array of power punches on Jones for three-plus rounds. Jones (15-13, 9 KOs) never went down, but eventually his trainer saw enough one-sided action and asked Dock to stop their fight at 2:18 of the final round.

Los Angeles’ Jones is 1-7 in his past eight fights. He has lost inside the distance four times in his nine-year pro career.

Earlier Saturday, Dwyke Flemmings Jr. immediately made up for lost time.

After having his pro debut delayed several times, the 18-year-old Paterson, New Jersey, native needed just one minute and 43 seconds to end his first professional fight on the non-televised portion Mielnicki-DeLomba undercard. Flemmings floored Gethers twice before their scheduled four-round junior middleweight match was stopped.

Flemmings, a high school senior, first dropped Gethers with a right hand very early in the first round. Gethers got up, but he never really recovered before Flemmings dropped him again with a left hook.

Gethers got up a second time, only to have Flemmings unload a flurry of punches on him until their fight was stopped with Gethers still standing.

Jersey City’s Gethers (0-3), who fought for the first time in more than two years, lost by knockout for the second time in three pro bouts.

In the fight following Flemmings’ impressive victory, Robbie Rose ruined the pro debut of another New Jersey native.

Rose out-worked Vincent Gigante, of nearby North Arlington, to win their four-round welterweight bout by majority decision. Rose (1-1), of Richburg, South Carolina, won their back-and-forth fight by the same score, 39-37, on two cards, though the other judge scored the action even, 38-38.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.