EL MARANON, Panama (CMC)

Jamaica's latest professional boxing hopeful Nicholas Walters has rapidly moved his ring record to 5-0 after another lopsided victory this past weekend.

The 22-year-old Walters wasted little time in whipping Panamanian Raul Miranda inside the first round of their scheduled four-round contest to log his fourth consecutive knockout victory.

With the victory at the Gimnasio del Club de Leones, Walters improved his record to 5-0 with four knockouts, while the inexperienced Miranda slumped to his third loss in as many pro fights.

Walters, who built up a fine amateur record that included championship success at the Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association tournament and a bronze medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, turned pro just under four months ago after failing to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.

All his pro bouts so far have been staged in Panama.

Impressive skills

Under the management of Haiti-based Jacques Deschamps, Walters has been based in Panama City where his handlers have been very impressed with his skills.

On his pro debut on August 2, he scored a comfortable points win over Esteban Ramos and returned later in the month to stop Panamanian Luis Gonzalez midway the second round of a scheduled four-rounder.

Walters returned to the ring for a September 11 outing and needed less than one round to stop another local fighter Armando Carpintero.

His impressive victory over Carpintero earned Walters an appearance on an October 30 world title card in which his gym mate Anselmo Moreno defeated Rolly Lunas for the World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight crown at the Figali Convention Centre.

On that card, his most high profile outing to date, Walters whipped the Panamanian Javier Jiminez via a fourth-round knockout.

Walters is in the embryonic stages of his career and his goal is to join an impressive list of Jamaica-born boxers - since the 1980s - to have won world boxing titles.

The legendary three-division champion Mike McCallum, a world and international Hall of Fame inductee, began the sequence by lifting the WBA light middleweight crown in 1984, and he was followed by the late heavyweight Trevor Berbick, welterweights Lloyd Honeyghan and Simon Brown, light middleweight Keith Mullings, light heavyweight Glen Johnson, and cruiserweight Oneil Bell.