By Allan Fox: #8 WBO Firat Arslan (32-6-2, 21 KO’s) was disgusted with the scoring of his fight with WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (35-2-1, 25 KO’s) last night at the Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Huck won the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision by a set of scores 115-113, 115-113 and 117-111. However, boxing fans at the stadium felt that Arslan should have won, and many fans who watched the fight on television also believed that Huck didn’t do enough to win.

Arslan said after the fight “I’ve seldom landed so many clean punches and he only scuffed me. How can such a thing happen? I landed so many punches. I think the whole crowd believes I’m the winner. I’ve been robbed of my win. I would have been the new world champion today, I would have written history.”

If you looked at who landed the cleaner punches in the fight it’s irrefutable that Arslan should have been the one that had his hand raised at the end of the fight. His shots were landing all night long and snapping Huck’s head back. Whereas Huck’s shots were mostly blocked on the gloves of Arslan. The only area where Huck seemed to have any kind of real success at landing was with his body shots in the second part of the fight. However, Huck was landing more of poking body shots, thrown without a lot of power.

It wasn’t the kind of body punching that boxing fans normally see when one fighter focuses on going to the midsection. If you compared the head-snapping shots that Arslan was landing all night long to the soft jab-like body punches that Huck was landing in the second half of the fight, it’s pretty clear that Arslan has an argument to make about being the guy that should have won this fight.

Arslan won’t be getting rematch despite the being controversial. Huck has already been ordered by the World Boxing Organization to defend his title against his mandatory challenger WBO interim cruiserweight champion Ola Afolabi. Besides that, Huck may move up to heavyweight to fight IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko next and then follow that with a defense of his WBO title against Afolabi.

Arslan fought well and probably should have won, but he’ll likely have to wait until 2014, if then to get another crack at Huck. Denis Lebedev lost a controversial decision to Huck in 2010, and he’s still not been given a second chance at him.