Brian Magee

magee is a solid performer

he was running froch close a few year back before being ko'd

should win this one imo

 

He used to be decent, though not great, but I haven't seen him since his fight against Tony Oakey...

Larsden has been inactive but, when he wasn't, would have been too much for Magee.

Could go either way.

 

I hope Magee wins this, he was ****ed over by Haye and Quigley regarding the British.

 

brain will win this one class operator and a credit to british boxing and plus is a great guy should he win when i beat smith i think i fight between me and him is long over due.

 

agreed:thumbsup

 

Shame this wont get televised over here again!

 

its on setanta ireland

 

Atleast thats something :good

Still a shame for us over this side of the water though. Hope Magee does the business

 

Magee to win this one, solid in all departments

 

I like Magee... he is a decent honest pro...:yep

 

All the best for that Tony.

I'd love you to do a job :good

 

Good luck Tony...:good

 

Yeah too right :good

Good luck!

 

He was very, very good.
A slick southpaw with good speed and power although a vulnerable chin.

The fight after Robin Reid was robbed against Sven Ottke(well the fight was close-ish but combined with the referees actions it was a robbery), Magee outboxed Reid and would have won a decision if not for the fact his chin let him down bigtime. It went the full 12 rounds but Reid floored Magee 4 times and won a close decision.

Magee was then very unlucky not to win the European title vs Vitali Tsypko in what was a bit of a hometown decision the Ukranian and then Magee gave Carl Froch a very tough fight(it's on youtube), until Froch knocked him out in the 11th, the 3rd time Magee was down in the fight and his chin letting him down again.

He had noticeably slipped by the time Froch fight came round, but still looked a solid operator and since then it's been hard to judge how much further he's slipped. He fought to a draw with decent British Light-Heavyweight Tony Oakey in a fight which really divides opinion.
I haven't seen the full thing but from those that have I'd heard very conflicting stories.

He looked pretty decent on his way to stopping Stevie McGuire back down at his natural weight of Super-Middle in his last fight. But McGuire isn't really even a big player at domestic level and it's hard to judge what Brian has left off that.

A his best Larsen was probably a better fighter, but he's slipped massively himself and it really does seem to be a battle of 2 faded fighters who possibly should have picked up World titles but didn't.

Larsen doesn't seem to have the same pop in his punches anymore(Although the Cocco stoppage wasn't bad), and that's a major blow for him considering Magee's main weakness(his chin). If there's a stoppage in this one, Larsen will be the man to get it. However if not Brian should run him close, and has a decent chance at pulling off the upset away from home.