Huck vs. Arslan tonight

By Boxing News - 11/03/2012 - Comments

Image: Huck vs. Arslan tonight(Picture: Photo Wende) By Allan Fox: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-2-1, 25 KO’s) will be facing old timer 42-year-old former World Boxing Association (WBA) World cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan (32-5-2, 21 KO’s) tonight in a fight that is pretty much shapes up to be a mismatch at the Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Arslan is a good fighter for older guy, but he’s not in Huck’s league and is no doubt going to get knocked out in this fight unless Huck carries him for the full 12 rounds.

Arslan, #8 WBO, has won three out of his last four fights, but is coming off of an ugly 12 round draw against Alexander Alekseev last May. That’s really who should be fighting right now, not Huck for the World Boxing Organization title. However, Arslan is a recognizable name for German fans, and it makes the fight a bigger draw than if Huck were to fight a higher ranked guy like #1 WBO BJ Flores.

Arslan could make it interesting tonight if he can take the fight to the inside and throw a lot of punches. Huck has problems with fighters that throw a ton of punches and keep the pressure on him. Huck struggled in both fights against Ola Afolabi, and probably deserved to lose to him last May. The fight was scored a draw, but Huck appeared to lost 8 of the rounds.

Steve Cunningham beat Huck with a high work rate, as did Alexander Povetkin. That’s the way to beat Huck because he’s more of a fighter that fights in brief spurts. He needs to rest a lot in between his attacks.

The undercard fights don’t offer much but the German boxing fans will likely be happy seeing these guys. Here’s the undercard such as it is:

Dustin Dirks vs. Cleiton Conceicao
Edmund Gerber vs. Darnell Wilson
Robert Woge vs. Serhiy Demchenko
David Graf vs. Blanchard Kalamba
Tyron Zeuge vs. Matingu Kindele
Enrico Koelling vs. Ivan Maslov



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