The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee

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Judges at the Court of Appeal listed his challenge to the conviction for a full hearing early next year. I find nothing to like about him other than his determination to succeed in the ring and become a champion. A disillusioned Magee's outlook on boxing was soured by this experience and he then took a sabbatical from the sport. He had been boxing from a young age, to try and keep him out of trouble, and showed a lot of promise but he was still involved in trouble. As an amateur, Magee won a bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 1992 World Junior Championships.

Lord Justice McCloskey declared: "This was an appalling, cowardly murder of a defenceless victim, striking at the foundations of the rule of law in any civilised society bereft of any mitigating or redeeming feature.When the promising boxer was brutally stabbed to death, investigators had no evidence, motive or suspect, but at the eleventh hour they made a breakthrough. It’s about dedication and living the life of an athlete and a lot of guys I’ve been involved with haven’t had the discipline to do that. Eamonn will never have those chances and we'll never be able to plan a future with him in our lives. He has been drinking since he was nine and the book makes clear he is a high-functioning alcoholic but does he ever wish he could kick the bottle? The 1990s rave culture was in full effect in Belfast and ecstasy was a regular drug of choice, he even turned to dealing, which put him on the IRA’s radar.

Magee's mind was on revenge and he floored the champion three times in the sixth round before star rated referee Dave Parris stopped the fight with Burke in no condition to continue. Magee's sights were then set on a fight with Manchester's Ricky Hatton and continued his winning streak with a further ten straight wins, seven inside the distance, including wins over Kenya's Joseph Miyumo, Shea Neary and Jonathan Thaxton to line up a super-fight with Hatton. Ukraine asks to take charge of two of our Royal Navy warships - and says it would defeat Putin faster if it. Magee had earned that fight, having been 23-2 at that time and gave Hatton a run for his money even knocking him down early on before losing on points.The assassin — he should be treated as an assassin — was sitting waiting on his prey as Eamonn walked out. Magee turned down the chance as he felt he should have been an automatic choice and did not go to the Games. He also held the Commonwealth light-welterweight title twice, and challenged for the European light-welterweight and British welterweight titles. But it was the best thing that happened to me because I got myself together and in the end I think I won the fight quite comfortably.

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