SAKIMA Mullings and Kemahl Russell, two of Jamaica’s leading boxing champions, will head for Guyana in a day or two where they will headline a four-card fight with 28 rounds of boxing at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Georgetown on Saturday night.

Launched as the Battle of the Contenders by KNRG Management at a press conference at 67 Waltham Park Road yesterday, the event is being jointly sponsored by Diamond Paints, at whose offices the launch was held, and Fly Jamaica Airways.

Mullings, the Caribbean Commonwealth Zonal Champion, will feature in an eight-round main bout against Derrick ‘Dangerous’ Richmond, who was a top fighter at the recently concluded Wray & Nephew Contender Boxing Series for Jamaica’s Ultimate Welterweight Boxer. Mullings is champion of the 2014 Wray & Nephew Contender Boxing Series.

Russell, who moved down from the light/heavyweight class to be middleweight, will open the programme in an exchange of punches with Winston Pompey of Suriname in a super middleweight contest over six rounds.

Bout number two is a bantamweight contest over six rounds that will feature Richard Williamson (Guyana) up against another Guyanese boxer Dexter Marques. Bout three is a junior welterweight spectacle over eight rounds between Iwan Azore and Dexter Gonzales, both of Guyana.

Mullings and Richmond will then highlight the card.

In making the announcement, Leiza-Mae Keane of KNRG Management explained that her management team could not find favourable sponsorship support in Jamaica for promoting Jamaican boxers, hence KNRG had to take the idea to Guyana where it met with favour and the eventual promotion of the second of two boxing events involving Jamaica boxers since April.