JAMAICAN welterweight boxing champion Sakima Mullings says he wants to `batter’ Guyana’s Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis in his own backyard and will do just that, according to a source that is very close to Mullings.

Lewis challenged the Jamaican to a 12-round contest for his (Mullings) World Boxing Council’s CABOFE welterweight title and Mullings’ management gladly accepted the challenge, with the bout being the feature one on a five-bout card organised by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control and is set for February 21, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).
The 36-round card will have as its main supporting bout, a female super middleweight contest between United States’ Loretta Rivas and Guyana’s very own, Sharon Warde over six rounds.
The night’s opening fight will see two debutants in Guyana’s Travis Fraser and Barbados’ Charwin Estwick battle in a junior middleweight contest over four rounds.
A six-round catch weight contest is also on the cards and will see Dexter Marques and Quincy Gomes match gloves over eight rounds, while Edmond DeClou and Derek Richmond will do battle over eight rounds in a middleweight contest.
Mullings became the WBC’s CABOFE welterweight champion in 2013 when he stopped Guyana’s and former European champion Howard Eastman at the Princess Hotel.
The hard-hitting, explosive, dominant and destructive Mullings, also defeated Richmond in 2013, stopping the Guyanese in the second round at the CASH, then went on to win the 2014 version of the Contenders Series which is an annual event on Jamaica’s boxing calendar.
Lewis defeated James Page in 2001, to capture the-then vacant World Boxing Association’s welterweight title, and quickly became a popular fighter on HBO.
After defending the title against Larry Marks, he took on Ricardo Mayorga and the bout ended in the second round and was ruled a No-Contest due to a nasty cut on Lewis, caused by accidental head butt.
Lewis lost the title in a rematch to Mayorga in 2002 via a fifth-round TKO and in 2003 Lewis challenged WBO welterweight champion, Mexican Antonio Margarito but was TKOed in the second round.
From 2005 to 2007 Lewis battled Denny Dalton in a series of three fights for Guyana’s light middleweight title. After a three-fight series against Dalton which ended prematurely, Lewis returned to the ring almost 12 months to the day from this embarrassment to defeat Dalton and claim the light middleweight title.
This was the final victory of his career which ended in October 2008 when he dropped a split decision to Eastman.

(By Michael DaSilva)