City showdown inspiring Magee.BRIAN MAGEE Brian Magee (born June 9, 1975 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is a boxer, who competed for Ireland in the middleweight ( is relishing the opportunity to challenge for his old Lonsdale Belt The Lonsdale Belt was a boxing prize given by Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Lord Lonsdale organised boxing matches in 1909 and was president of the National Sporting Club of Britain. in Liverpool on July 4. The former British super-middleweight champion will fight Tony Quigley for the title he never lost in the ring and is massively up for the occasion. "I really can't wait. I'm just looking forward to picking up where I left off. It was hard watching two guys fighting for my title after not losing it properly" Of Quigley's performance in beating Tony Dodson, Magee, who was ringside ring·side n. 1. The area or seats immediately outside an arena or ring, as at a prizefight. 2. A place providing a close view of a spectacle. , added: "He fought above a lot of people's expectations against Dodson. His movement was fantastic. "Dodson put the pressure on him well but he picked his moment and stopped him in the twelfth round. "I couldn't criticise it at all," said the man from Belfast.. |
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