Eamonn Magee
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Magee in the corner of Jim Rock, 2008
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| Nickname(s) | The Terminator | ||||||||||||
| Rated at |
Light-welterweight Welterweight |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 70 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||
| Born |
13 July 1971 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||
| Boxing record | |||||||||||||
| Total fights | 33 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 27 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 6 | ||||||||||||
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Eamonn Magee (born 13 July 1971) is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2007. He held the Commonwealth light-welterweight title twice, and challenged for the European light-welterweight and British welterweight titles. As an amateur, Magee won a bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 1992 World Junior Championships.
He was a veteran of the Irish and European professional fight scenes and fought out of the Breen Gym in Belfast, where he now works as an assistant trainer to John Breen.
Magee grew up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast and was in and out of trouble as a youth. Magee came from a boxing obsessed family, at the age of twelve, Magee's mother enrolled a him in the local boxing club. Magee stated that for his mother "boxing was as important as school". Magee's three older brothers were also boxers with two of them, Terry and Noel, having careers as professional boxers. His brother Noel was also a Commonwealth title champion.
In 1989, Magee was involved in a fight outside a restaurant and sustained a deep wound to his neck from which he almost died. In 1992, he was shot in the leg by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in a punishment attack. In 1994, Magee (who is a supporter of Celtic football club) was charged with affray after getting into a barroom brawl with a group of Rangers fans in a Belfast City Centre pub. In February 2004, Magee was attacked in the Blacks Road area of Belfast. He was pulled from his car and beaten with a baseball bat, he had his leg broken and knee fractured.
In February 2010 he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for assault after head-butting a man in north Belfast.
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