brian magee in with robin reid your having a laugh

knockout artist · Post by **knockout artist** » 19 Apr 2004, 06:00

Magee is a nice boxer with a good amateur pedigree.

To be fair his opponent looked very strong and was a bit awkward, but my money would be on Reid to stop Magee.

Kilburn · Post by **Kilburn** » 19 Apr 2004, 06:01

I'd favour a big, experienced 12 stoner like Robin Reid to stop Magee after that miserable performance on saturday. There's obviously a reason why Magee has been in with all these middleweights (Mkambi, Cherifi, Elliot, and Nembard who nearly KHTFO).

He's just not strong enough.

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » 20 Apr 2004, 10:56

Here's a form line for you.
Last year Ryan Rhodes went to spar in Germany - with Elloitt amongst others.
Ryan stood him on his head.
Reid will coast this fight if it ever happens.

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 20 Apr 2004, 11:08

No, Magee didn't look great. In his defence, I believe he's a fighter who needs to keep busy. He looked good against Thysse, Gonzalez and Cherifi in the latter half of 2003 - then came a five-month layoff which clearly showed against Elliott.
I wouldn't write him off totally against Reid. Reid has hardly looked great of late, either.

knockout · Post by **knockout** » 20 Apr 2004, 11:35

bennie wrote:No, Magee didn't look great. In his defence, I believe he's a fighter who needs to keep busy. He looked good against Thysse, Gonzalez and Cherifi in the latter half of 2003 - then came a five-month layoff which clearly showed against Elliott.
I wouldn't write him off totally against Reid. Reid has hardly looked great of late, either.

Thats the positive spin... the other side of the coin is that Cherifi is a shot to bits middle.... Gonzalez laid down and Thysse was just plain limited....

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 20 Apr 2004, 14:39

I tend to agree with all those assessments Knockout, don't forget also that Elliott was stopped in Nine by Middleweight Evans Ashira who is hardly a devastating KO artist.

THEBUTCH · Post by **THEBUTCH** » 22 Apr 2004, 12:23

Sometimes one certain fight in a boxers career can put you off of him, and for me, Brian Magee was fortunate to get the win over Chris Nembard. I didn't like what I saw that night, heavily decked with in seconds of the opening bell, rocked badly on occasions as the rounds went by, and clutching at almost every opportunity. Sound familiar?

While he's adjusted into a decent 10 round boxer by boxing carefully selected opposition, he lacking in something to take him beyond genuine European level (which is no disgrace at all, but the punters are being told he's a "world champion" when reality begs the question.....could he win a British title?)

But before I completely forgot about the title of this thread, Robin Reid will get to him before the final bell tolls and deliver an emphatic stoppage.

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 26 Apr 2004, 07:28

Mads Larsen has relinquished the EBU title. Prior to that Mario Viet withdrew as the official challenger. #1 rated Mikkel Kessler will not fight for the EBU title since he is getting a WBC shot soon. That means that the two highest available contenders Robin Reid and Vitali Tsypko probably will fight each other for the vacant belt.

EBU 168 ratings (up to march)
Champ: Mads Larsen
Official challenger: Mario Viet
WBO Champ: Joe Calzaghe
WBC Champ: Markus beyer
1: Mikkel Kessler
2: Robin Reid
3: Brian Magee (IBO)
4: Vitali Tsypko
5: Danilo Haussler
6: Rudy Markussen
7: Mger Mkrtchyan
8: Jean-Paul Mendy
9: Robert Stieglitz
10: Armand Krajnc
11: Malik Dziarra
12: Rachid Kanfouah
13: Victor Oganov
14: Denis Inkin
15: Jackson Chanet
16: Martin Nielsen
17: Carl Froch
18: Alberto Colajanini
19: Eric Teymour
20: Jose Guerrero

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 30 Apr 2004, 19:22

Rudy Markussen & Vitali Tsypko have been made official challengers for the vacant belt. When the fights goes ahead it will also be for Markussens WBO intl & Tsypkos WBA Intl belts.