Brian Magee (born June 9, 1975 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is reigning European super middleweight boxing champion, who as an amateur competed for Ireland in the middleweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics. As a professional he has captured the European, IBO and British super middleweight titles.

As an amateur Magee fought out of the Holy Trinity Boxing Club in Belfast and won the Ulster senior title four years in a row from 1995–98.

Magee represented Ireland at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Magee won a bronze medal for Northern Ireland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and silver medal for Ireland at the 1998 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus.

Following the Commonwealth Games Magee then turned professional in March 1999 and fought Dean Ashton at the Bowler's Arena, Manchester in England on the undercard of a bill that included Damaen Kelly, Michael Brodie and Clinton Woods. Magee won his opener knocking out the Stoke man inside two rounds.

He won the vacant IBO Intercontinental super middleweight title in January, 2001 by defeating Neil Linford from England. He then captured the IBO world super middleweight title and had 8 successful defences. He was defeated in his attempt for the European title now. In December 2008, he beat undefeated Scottish Stevie Maguire to win the British super middleweight title, and after a 13-month break, returned to defeat Mads Larsen in a seven-round knockout in Aarhus to be crowned European champion for the first time.

Lucian Bute (born February 28, 1980) is a Romanian-Canadian professional boxer fighting out of Montreal, Canada. Bute is a former IBF Super Middleweight Champion. BoxRec has previously ranked him as the 9th pound for pound best boxer in the world and number 2 at super middleweight in 2012, after Andre Ward.

Lucian Bute was born on February 28, 1980 in Pechea, Galaţi County, Romania.

He also holds Canadian citizenship, gained in 2012.

As an amateur, Bute won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas and the Gold Medal at the 2001 Francophone Games. Bute also represented Romania at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand as a middleweight.

Lucian Bute turned pro in 2000. He is still trained by Stéphan Larouche, who also trained former world champions Éric Lucas and Leonard Doroftei.

On June 15, 2007, Bute faced super middleweight contender and former Olympian Sakio Bika at the Bell Centre in Montreal in an elimination bout for the IBF title. Bute beat Bika by unanimous decision (116-111, 118-109, 118-109) and, as a result, he got his shot at the IBF Super Middleweight Champion Alejandro Berrio on October 19, 2007. Bute beat Berrio via TKO in the 11th round. With this victory, Bute became the third Romanian professional boxing world champion after Leonard Doroftei and Mihai Leu.

Mikkel Kessler (born on 1 March 1979) is a Danish professional boxer and former two time WBA and two time WBC Super Middleweight Champion. In his professional career, he has a record of 45–2 with 34 wins by knockout.

Kessler was born to a Danish father and an English mother, Ann, who hails from Salisbury, Wiltshire. He began his vocation early, training in boxing gyms at age 13.

Kessler fought three years as an amateur. He finished his amateur career with a record of 44 wins and three losses. He won the Danish Championship five times in addition to the Norwegian Championship and the Scandinavian Championship.

Kessler originally campaigned as a light middleweight and then middleweight for the first 22 fights of his career. He won 16 of his first 22 fights by knockout (KO).

After 3 years and 22 fights, Kessler settled in the super middleweight division. Kessler continued his hard hitting streak, dispatching 6 of his first 7 opponents by KO, thereby improving his record to 29–0 with 22 KO.

On 29 November 2002, Kessler fought for his first championship and defeated former WBC Super Middleweight Champion Dingaan Thobela over twelve rounds to become the International Boxing Association Champion. He gave up this belt to fight for the more recognized WBC International title on 11 April 2003, versus Craig Cummings. Kessler won by a knockout in the third round.

Jason Barker is a British theorist of contemporary French philosophy, a film director, screenwriter and producer.

Most notable for his translation and introductions to the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Barker draws on an eclectic range of influences including Neoplatonism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism. Writing in both the English and French languages, Barker has also contributed to debates in post-Marxism.

In an article published in The Guardian in February 2012, Barker criticised the selective interpretation of Karl Marx's writings by economists such as Nouriel Roubini when responding to the global recession. According to Barker such interpretations water down the revolutionary aspects of Marx's ideas and focus unduly on their reformist tendencies.

Barker is the writer, director and producer of the 2011 partly animated documentary film Marx Reloaded, which considers the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in the aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis of 2008—09. The film includes interviews with several distinguished philosophers including Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Jacques Rancière, John N. Gray, Alberto Toscano, Peter Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek.

Carl Froch (born on 2 July 1977) is a British professional boxer and the current IBF Super Middleweight Champion and former two-time WBC Super Middleweight Champion. He has also held the British, Commonwealth and English titles at super middleweight.

Froch began boxing at his home in Colwick, Nottingham at 9 years old. He later joined the Phoenix ABC in Gedling, near Nottingham. As an amateur, he won two ABA Middleweight titles in 1999 and 2001 and a bronze medal at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships before turning pro and having his first pro fight in March 2002. As an amateur, Froch lost to American Peter Manfredo Jr. in a 4th round technical knock out.

During his amateur career, he lost a fight to Denis Inkin, who he was scheduled to fight in a title eliminator in 2008, but Inkin pulled out on three occasions.^{[citation needed]}

Froch has had 31 professional fights, with 21 knockout and 8 decision victories, suffering defeat only twice.

Froch is trained by Robert McCracken and managed by Barry Hearn.