FORMER WBA welterweight champion Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis is elated that his scheduled fight with Jamaican Sakima Mullings would now take place in Guyana and believes that the new development would put more pressure on his opponent. “I am happy that the fight will be held here. I’ll once again get a chance to fight in front of my home crowd.  This is a good development,” Lewis said yesterday.  The former world champion and Mullings were scheduled to meet on February 28 in Jamaica.

However, following recent discussions between the Guyana Boxing Board of Control and promoters in Jamaica, the fight was shifted to Guyana and is now down for the Cliff Anderson Spots Hall on February 21.

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.

The southpaw is currently getting rid of six years of ring rust at the Keith Bazilio-owned Forgotten Youth Foundation gym, and is being prepared by  coach Joseph Murray with assistance from Sebert Blake and Wincell Thomas.

Training, Lewis said, is coming along smoothly and he is already within the junior middleweight range with just over a month left. The fight is in the welterweight division.

“I am doing very well in the gym, I am feeling good and I am back to being the old ‘Six Head’. I think that having the fight here would put more pressure on Mullings,” Lewis added.

Since 2011, Mullings had defeated Guyanese 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.

The Lewis/Mullings affair headlines a five-fight card that heralds the return of CABOFE middleweight champion Edmond De Clou. The Lindener has been absent since sustaining a broken jaw in a fight against Dereck Richmond in October 2013.

Also making a return is middleweight Sharon `Stone’ Ward, another Lindener, who will clash with American Lorissa Rivas.

CABOFE Bantamweight champion, Dexter Marques, faces Quincy Gomes in a six-round catch-weight contest while Travis Fraser will make his professional debut against Barbadian Charwyn Estwick.