(Photo credit: Sauerland Events) By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (45-2, 34 KO’s) made weight today during his weigh-in for his fight tomorrow night against WBA World super middleweight champion Brian Magee (36-4-1, 25 KO’s) at the BOXEN, in Herning, Denmark. Kessler, 33, weighed in at 167.8 pounds.
Magee came in a toned 168 lbs, right on the super middleweight limit. Magee, 37, will be looking to KO Kessler as soon as possible tomorrow night so that he doesn’t let Pro-Kessler crowd get him motivated.
Magee can’t let Kessler get any encouragement, because he seems to fight at a higher level when he’s fighting at home in Denmark. But the way to shut the crowd up is to get to Kessler’s chin early and often to put him down the same way that Allan Green did last May in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Green dropped Kessler with a peach of a right hand in the 1st round, but he unfortunately let Kessler off the hook by not going after him after he got him down. I don’t know what on earth Green was thinking. It must have seemed so easy that he figured that he could drop Kessler any time he wanted. Green never really did attempt to land much after the 1st round, and I had a feeling that he was possibly gassed out from landing that one punch.
Magee has slightly more power than Green, but he’s got it in both hands and not just with his right. If Magee comes out hunting for bear early with his big guns ready to erupt, he could put Kessler down on the canvas in front of his loving fans.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all because Magee looked dangerous in destroying the Danes Mads Larsen and Rudy Markussen recently. If you take a look at those fights, Magee was hitting with major power. Those were some really hard shots he had Larsen and Markussen with, and I seriously doubt that Kessler can stand up to those kinds of shots for long without getting stopped.
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