Bauer's sector leading title Take a Break proved to be the most resilient in the sector with sales slipping just 0.5% period on period and 2.1% year on year to 786,849.
Maguire, who has only one leading title win in six and a half years, says he will take confidence from his comeback against China's Yu Delu, who is ranked 49.
"Closing J17 enables Emap Consumer Media to focus all of its efforts and resources on making Bliss the market leading title for teenage girls," " added Mr Keenan.
"Murdoch wants his leading title to support the winning side, and he has called it right time and time again," said Tim Luckhurst, a professor of journalism at the University of Kent.
It soldiered on, however, and months later it made the familiar switch of format from broadsheet to compact at the country's leading title, the Herald, in the hope of retaining sales.
(There were echoes here of James Murdoch's failure to see a certain email. Do these guys need better glasses?) Why would a man about to risk the future of his company by buying two leading titles not have exercised due diligence?
In his first six months of ownership he has disembowelled his two leading titles.
Mr Dogan's leading titles have since demoted or fired some of their shrillest anti-AK hacks.
