Sakima Mullings fulfilled his long-held ambition by scoring a technical knockout of Tsetsi Davis in the seventh round in the final of the 2014 Wray & Nephew Contender boxing series on Wednesday night.
It was a closely contested fight, in which the advantage swung one way and then the other for the first six rounds; but in the seventh, with Davis having difficulty seeing out of both eyes, having suffered two cuts, and now taking a heavy pounding from Mullings, his corner intervened and stopped the contest.
The fight almost came to a bizarre end in the fifth round, when the referee signaled that it was over, after Davis turned his back on his opponent. It appeared that Davis initially thought he had knocked Mullings to the canvas. The referee ruled that it was not a knockdown, however, and it was only after the intervention of a local boxing official that the fight was re-started.
If he had been shaken by that incident, Mullings quickly recovered his poise and went on to impose himself on the contest in the decisive seventh round.
So, Mullings, 31, a proud boxer who lost in the semi-finals of the inaugural Contender series in 2011, has finally secured the championship in its fourth staging.
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Sakima Mullings takes 2014 Contender boxing series
