Unyielding as they come, Ramel ‘Sub Zero’ Lewis returns to the boxing ring in the Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum Contender Boxing Series after a one-year absence.

Representing Team Caribbean from the Hard knocks Gym, the Jamaican Lewis will trade punches with American boxer Fard ‘The Messenger’ Muhammad representing Team America in the Welterweight main bout of a three-fight card at the Chinese Benevolent Association Auditorium tonight, beginning at approximately 9:30.

The card will open with the first of two preliminary fights featuring up-and-coming boxers in the amateur ranks, starting at 8:30 pm sharp, with the main event featuring Lewis and Muhammad to follow at approximately one hour later.

Muhammad, age 25, is a mixed martial arts fighter out of Las Vegas, Nevada, who is a 76th-ranked Pro Men’s Bantamweight in California. This will, however, be his first fight as a professional boxer.

Lewis and Mohammad will contest the sixth fight of the eight-fight preliminary rounds in the welterweight division. They will go five rounds, with the winner advancing to the next stage which would put one or the other closer to a major slice of $3 million in prize money on offer.

The champion will pocket $ 2 million and the title of Jamaica’s Ultimate Welterweight Boxing Champion. The runner-up shares is $500,000, third-place $250,000 and fourth place JA$200,000.

Lewis, 28, who stands at 5′ 5” with a reach of 71” and weighs 145 lbs, has a ring record of six wins against four losses from 10 fights. He has a fairly impressive record in the Contender series, having reached the final against Donovan ‘Police’ Campbell in the second year of the event in 2012. But the gritty competitor from the New Market community of Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland did not rest with that achievement and followed up in the year after with making it to the semi-finals of the event in 2013.

However, with the introduction of more formidable opponents to the series, he made it only to the quarter-final stages in 2014.

On realising that competition in the Contender series was attracting greater attention from outside Jamaica, Lewis decided to take a break from the series in 2015 and retool. Since then, he has been working on strengthening certain essential areas in his armoury, and with his return for the 2016 stanza, his trainer Andrew Boland has had him working out and being sharpened up against Rikardo Smith.

According to coach Boland, ‘Sub Zero’ will be in the best possible shape of his boxing career for this series.