Brian Magee has pulled out of his IBO super-middleweight title defence on Saturday night at the Everton Park Sports Centre.

Magee had agreed to fight Puerto Rican Brian Barbosa but later decided the former North American champion was not the right opponent at this stage of his career.

Unbeaten Belfast man Magee said: "I was to have fought James Crawford and then he pulled out, and then we had other opponents.

"Then Barbosa was on and off and things just got really messy.

"So after talking with my management team we decided that it would be better not to fight.

"It has been really hard and very frustrating trying to get my head round my first defence with so much messing about going on.

"Hopefully something can be sorted out and I will get fighting again, maybe in May."