Brian Magee (born 9 June 1975) is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2012.. Retrieved 19 June 2016. He held the WBA (Regular)

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title in 2012, and the IBO title from 2001 to 2004. At regional level, he held the British super middleweight title in 2008 and the

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European title in 2010. As an

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he represented Ireland at the

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, reaching the

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quarter-finals. He also won a silver medal at the 1998 European Championships and bronze at the

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, representing Northern Ireland in the latter.

Amateur career

As an amateur Magee fought out of holy trinity ABC in Belfast, and won the Ulster senior title every year from 1995 to 1998. Magee represented Ireland at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Olympic results

*Defeated

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(Canada) 13–5 *Defeated

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(Cameroon) 11–6 *Lost to

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(Algeria) 9–15 Magee won a bronze medal for Northern Ireland at the

and silver medal for Ireland at the 1998 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus.

Professional career

Magee turned professional in March 1999, and fought Dean Ashton at the Bowler's Arena, Manchester, England on the undercard of a bill that included

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and Clinton Woods. Magee won his opener

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the

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man inside two rounds. He won the vacant IBO Intercontinental super middleweight title in January 2001 by defeating Neil Linford from England. He then won the IBO world super middleweight title and defended it successfully eight times. He was then defeated in his attempt for the European title. In December 2008 he beat undefeated Scottish Stevie Maguire to win the British super middleweight title, and, after a 13-month break, returned to defeat

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in a seven-round knockout in

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, becoming European champion for the first time. On 11 September 2010 Brian Magee defended his European Title against Armenia's Roman Aramian with the Armenian not starting the ninth round. Magee challenged IBF Super-Middleweight champion Lucian Bute in Canada on 19 March 2011. He lost the fight to Lucian Bute by TKO in the tenth round. On 30 July 2011 Magee captured the interim WBA super-middleweight title with a unanimous points win over Jaime Barboza in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Magee vs. Kessler

On 8 December 2012. Brian Magee travelled to Denmark to face "The Viking Warrior" Mikkel Kessler in his home nation with the WBA Super Middleweight Title at stake. After a quiet 1st round, Magee went to the floor twice in the 2nd after Kessler landed some hard bodyshots. After 24 seconds on the third round it was allover, Kessler landed a hard bodyshot again; Magee never recovered and Kessler became World Champion for the fifth time.

Professional boxing record

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