By Scott Gilfoid: Interim WBA World super middleweight champion Brian Magee (36-4-1, 25 KO’s) will be taking a two-fight winning streak with him to the ring on December 8th when he faces 33-year-old Mikkel Kessler (45-2, 34 KO’s) for the vacant WBA World super middleweight title at the BOXEN, Herning, Denmark. Magee has had great luck in whipping Danes lately, beating Rudy Markussen and Mads Larsen. Magee will be looking for one more by adding Kessler’s name on December 8th.

Kessler doesn’t intend on becoming another one of Magee’s victims, saying to ESPN “It takes something to come to Denark and knock out both Mads and Rudy. But his winning streak will end when we meet.”

It actually was no big deal that Magee was able to stop 35-year-old Markussen and 39-year-old Mads Larsen. These are a couple of older fighters and it didn’t take much for Magee to take them out. Believe me, if it weren’t Magee whipping them then it would be someone else. Those guys are a couple of easy marks for the better fighters in the 168 pound division like Magee to sharpen up his teeth on.

We may soon add the ring rusty 33-year-old Kessler’s name to that list as well, because he’s getting up there in age just like his fellow Danes and he’s hardly fighting anymore. He missed 14 months of action after suffering an eye injury in the Super Six tournament in 2010.

After taking one fight against an obscure guy, Kessler than missed another 11 months of action before beating Allan Green last May. By the time Kessler fights Magee in December, Kessler will have missed another seven months. I tell he’s fighting like he’s a world champion with his long periods between fights. It’s not good especially now that he’s facing Magee, who will no doubt take advantage of an aging, rusty Kessler in this fight.

Magee has a perfect opportunity to put Kessler out of his misery by taking the fight to him early and sending him into retirement. The trick with Kessler is you bring the heat early and he wilts like he did against Andre Ward.