EVEN with `Six Heads’ former WBA welterweight champion Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis is finding it difficult to establish the certainty of his upcoming ring date with Jamaican Sakima Mullings.
Up to yesterday Lewis was unsure if next month’s fight on the Reggae Island would become a reality. “I heard that the fight has been postponed. We are trying to make contact with Jamaica to find out what is going on,” Lewis said yesterday.
Efforts by Chronicle Sport to make contact with the boxing authority in Jamaica proved futile.
The Guyanese said that the contest is scheduled for February 28.
Known as `The Albouystown Cyclone’, Lewis won the WBA title in February 2001 with a seventh round stoppage of James Page. His last fight was in October 2008 and ended in a split decision defeat to Howard Eastman.
Now age 44 and coming out of years of inactivity, the once darling of local boxing promises to continue training until a concrete word is received. “I’ll still be doing my thing in the gym. I am not going to stop training,” the former world champion said.
Lewis has been preparing at the Keith Bazilio owned Forgotten Youth Foundation gym in Albouystown with coaches Sebert Blake, Joseph Murray and Wincel Thomas in his corner.
Mullings is 12 years Lewis’ junior and has defeated four Guyanese fighters in the last three years.
Since 2011, Mullings has defeated Winston Pompey, Howard Eastman, Revlon Lake and Derrick Richmond. The CABOFE and Jamaica welterweight champion has chalked up 18 fights during the time of Lewis’ inactivity.