MONTEGO BAY, St James — National Middleweight boxing champion Ricardo Smith, fighting with a badly swollen right eye from the end of the fourth round, scored a unanimous decision over Donovan ‘Police’ Campbell in the feature bout on Sunday’s ‘Boxing on the Waterfront II’ held at Pier One.

There were also comfortable wins for other favourites, Commonwealth Boxing Council Zonal middleweight champion Sakima Mullings and Tsetsi Davis over Ian ‘Hagler’ Smith and Glenroy ‘Bumpy’ Beckford, respectively.

The fight card that also saw three amateur fights was described as “a success for boxing” by president of the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control (JBBC) Stephen Jones.

“In terms of boxing this is definitely a good night as everyone we have seen so far have put in the work necessary,” he told the Observer with one fight still to go on Sunday.

He added, however, that while there was a good turn out of enthusiastic fans, he was hoping for a bigger turn out by the fans for the sake of the promoters.

He pointed out that given the short time frame — three weeks — in which the promoters had to put on the show, the turnout was still “encouraging and showed that the boxing actively is ripe again and people asking for more”.

Smith, who is from nearby Hanover, won a unanimous decision to take his professional record to six wins without a loss. He said the swollen eye limited his vision and forced him to be more aggressive in seeking a knock down but gave his opponent credit.

A clash of heads late in the fourth round and a jab resulted in Smith’s eye puffing up almost closed shut, but his corner managed to keep it under control by icing it between rounds.

Smith won 80-72, 80-72 and 78-74 over the eight rounds on the judges’ scorecards to repeat his win over the Kingstonian from the Contender series that was held earlier this year.

He told reporters after the fight that he was forced to protect himself when Campbell went after his eye. “I couldn’t see properly and had to resort to some body shots,” he said.

Earlier Mullings floored Smith with two minutes 21 seconds left in the third round with a powerful combination that left Smith crumbled along the ropes to take his professional record to eight wins and a loss.

Mullings, who was two pounds lighter than Smith coming into the fight, took control from the start and told the Observer afterwards that while he never felt in any trouble, fighting a southpaw always provided some match-up problems.

Davis won his fight on a unanimous decision with the judges scoring the fight 80-72, 79-73 and 80-72 in his favour despite receiving a standing eight count in the fifth round.

Davis, who had a six-pound weight advantage over the south paw Beckford, improved his record to nine wins and two losses in what was one of the more exciting fights of the night as both men threw everything in attack seeking the advantage.

He staggered Beckford in the first round with a powerful right, while Beckford returned the favour in the fourth round when he had one of his best periods, dictating the pace.

After the fight, Davis said he was a bit rusty as he had not fought since the Contender series ended and he misjudged the duration of the fight as he thought it was to have run six rounds and not eight.