In April 1990 he faced Wally Swift Jr for the vacant BBBofC Midlands Area super welterweight title, losing by only half a point.
[3] Cummins was forced to retire from boxing shortly after his clash with Neville Brown, after failing a routine brain scan.
[4] In July 1997, Cummins received a six-month prison sentence for assaulting and racially abusing an Asian doctor who was treating his newborn son for breathing difficulties at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
[5] After retiring from boxing, Cummins went on to become a bodybuilder, debt collector and a bodyguard for pop star Lee Ryan.
[2][6] Cummins was seriously injured in an accident on the A6 in Birstall in 2004 when his motorcycle was in a collision with a car, and complications from an infected cut on his backside left him paralysed from the chest down and needing assistance from a carer and nurses.