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. Rising boxing star Eamonn Magee Junior, 22, from Belfast in Northern Ireland, was stabbed seven times in the chest and stomach by jealous Orhan Koca, 34. Magee went on to win the WBU welterweight title in his next fight but one of those dreadful things Warren talked about nearly put an end to his fighting career in 2004.

Turkish national Orhan Koca would eventually be sentenced to a minimum term of 14 years for the jealousy-driven killing — but only after detectives secured key evidence in what has been described as a “golden hour”.I don’t feel too hopeful at the prospect of Magee, in his dressing gown, and I talking our way out of trouble. The Terminator admitted to boozing heavily before the Hatton fight and even got a visit from the IRA who told him to sort himself out. The first whiff of a lead came from Eamonn’s partner Courtney, who spoke to cops about her previous relationship. Magee shuts down his phone and I say it’s incredible he still won the national title a few months later.

Kisses and an embrace for the man who murdered her own mother: Emotional moment daughter of Muriel McKay -. The ex-fighter, known as The Terminator during a professional career where he held the Commonwealth welterweight title, vehemently denies the charges. Magee tells a chilling story of how, during internment raids in the 1970s, he and his three brothers would be turned out of the two beds they shared.Some two years after the killing, Koca, then aged 34, would eventually plead guilty to the charge and would later be sentenced by Mr Justice Treacy to a minimum of 14 years in May 2017. Magee’s best year in the ring was in 2002 when he knocked out Jon Thaxton, a very good pro, to secure a crack at Hatton’s WBU light-welterweight title. The blurb on the back of my book, The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee, is a direct quote from the man himself. A barman's legal bid to overturn his conviction for murdering boxer Eamonn Magee Jr will be heard later this month, judges have confirmed. I just thought – what a thoroughly nasty piece of work and didn’t care what happened to him quite frankly.

In protest, Magee then turned down the chance to box off for the place at the Barcelona Olympics as he felt he was the automatic choice. We got information back and it was to my dismay, not only did it show that the phone was not at the murder scene… it proved the phone was miles away from the murder scene,” said John. Gibson is a journalist whose work appears regularly in ‘The Guardian’, ‘The Belfast Telegraph’ and ‘Boxing Monthly’, amongst many others. Magee believes the 22-year-old could have had a career in the ring, insisting: “He only had two professional fights and I promise you he would have went on to be a world champion himself. Then there was the violence: a throat slashed, an IRA bullet in the calf, a savage, leg-shattering beating.

It’s funny, we talk about Mike Tyson coming back and in his head (Tyson) he probably thinks ‘if I’d done this I would have had a longer career’ and looks back at all the bad things that have happened. Magee fought out of the John Breen Gym in Belfast, he is a former Commonwealth Light Welterweight Title, Irish Light Welterweight Title and WBU Welterweight Title holder. I find nothing to like about him other than his determination to succeed in the ring and become a champion. Ms Magee said: 'We were relieved to hear his plea, but when we were told how long he'd be likely to spend in prison, it didn't feel like justice.

He was entitled to have been allowed to make that defence, to run the case before a jury, and he was deprived of that because he did not understand, he would say, the process. But following his guilty plea the judge who jailed him declared that it had been "a pre-meditated and planned murder which was both brutal and sustained". Drink and drugs continued to be a constant in his post-fighting life but tragedy unfortunately followed him and his family. The Turkish national is seeking to overturn his murder conviction, based on an alleged misunderstanding of the legal process and his limited grasp of English.

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