Singh looks useful newcomer to sport

Singh poses for the cameras after victory

CALLUM Singh looks a very useful addition to the pro ranks.

And the Coventry super-fly has the tunnel division and steely mentality needed to make it in the paid game.

At Cannock’s Excelsior Club last night, the 21-year-old was to have taken part in a defining fight against fellow unbeaten hope Michael McCrone.

Glaswegian McCrone was forced to withdraw at very short notice from a show that celebrated St Andrew’s Night.

Liverpudlian Ricky Starkey, a natural junior-lightweight, was drafted in.

Singh, now unbeaten in four, didn’t lose focus, his ambition didn’t wane. With middleweight contender River Wilson-Bent in his corner, Callum got the job done neatly and clinically. After four rounds, referee Peter McCormack scored 40-35.

Callum Singh raises his hand in victory

The points tally shows how competitive Starkey was throughout – he was deducted a point in the last session for pulling Singh on to him.

Callum told me afterwards: “I had to put six pounds (in weight) back on. I was well prepared and got the job done.

“With every fight I’m learning. He was strong, but I felt I was hurting him.”

Singh, who scaled 8st 10lbs on the night, is now ready to move into six round class.

He showed maturity against Starkey (9st 2lbs) who always looked to land hooks. Singh struck with a left of his own in the dying embers of the first, but took a couple back in the second.

The Liverpool lad, who lost for the 30th time in 34 (two draws) was warned for headwork in the third and his cause further hampered by the point deduction.

Two right hands close to the bell underlined the fact Singh had been the Guvnor.