By Alexey Sukachev
At the National Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, WBA #4, WBC #5, WBO #13 and IBF #14 Brian Magee (34-3-1, 23 KOs) retained his EBU super middleweight belt after his German/Armenian foe Roman Aramian (30-9, 20 KOs) retired on his stool after the eighth round. Magee now wants to world title fight against current super middleweight champion Dimitri Sartison of Germany.
"I'm number one in the division and hopefully now I've put myself in a position to get it," Magee said. "The strategy was to bide my time and keep the pressure on. He is tough - I hit him with everything and he still kept coming. You saw what the European title meant to him, every round he gave it his all."
In the co-feature, IBF #9 Spanish all-action brawler Kiko Maritnez (23-3, 17 KOs) is the new European super bantamweight champion after a hard-fought and extremely entertaining twelve-round slughfest with WBC #15 France-based Armenian Arsen Martirosyan (16-4, 6 KOs). Both fighters gave their all but it was Ireland-welcome Martinez (who notably destroyed local hero and future world champion Bernard Dunne in a single round several years ago), who came out as a winner with scores: 118-110 (twice) and 116-112.
Other results:
Coleman Barrett (12-1, 2 KOs) PTS 4 Remigiyus Ziausys (11-28-3, 5 KOs)
Alexey Acosta (12-0, 12 KOs) TKO 6 Oscar Chacin (13-12-1, 11 KOs)
Luis Garcia (9-0, 7 KOs) TKO 3 Christian Cruz (12-11-1, 4 KOs)
Paul Hyland (18-1, 5 KOs) PTS 8 Robert Da Luz (13-30-3, 9 KOs)
Anthony Fitzgerald (9-2, 2 KOs) PTS 10 Robert Long (4-2, 1 KO) to become a new Irish super middleweight champion
