WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck to face Ola Afolabi on May 25th

03/04/2013 by Boxing News

huck56343 By Thomas Cowan: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck will be defending his title against interim champion Ola Afolabi on May 25th in Germany. These two have fought eachother twice before, with Huck winning comfortably in 2009 but last year they fought to a thrilling controversial draw. Afolabi was very unlucky to only come away with a draw and many felt he would have got the decision in a neutral country.

Don King won the purse bid to promote the fight and I’m not sure Afolabi will be too happy about the conditions that King has proposed. King has proposed an 80/20 split of the purse in Huck’s favour, which I think, is very harsh considering how close the last fight was. If I was Afolabi I’d be looking for at least 25% of the purse, if not 30%. This may not seem like a huge difference but the purse bid was $1.5 million so Afolabi will be earning $300,000. If he could get 30%, he would make $450,000.

Huck not interested in Eddie Chambers fight

02/18/2013 by Boxing News

By Allan Fox: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (36-3, 18 KO’s) made it clear today that he’s not in the least interested in facing former heavyweight world title challenger Eddie Chambers (35-2-1, 25 KO’s) in a fight in the near future. Chambers, 30, tried to call Huck out on twitter today, and it got kind of ugly with both guys trash talking each other.

Huck said on his twitter “You [Chambers] are and remain a zero. I’m the world champion… You’re a janitor. You’re too weak, you have to prove yourself first. Dog whom thou wilt go ko come to me.”

Chambers responded: “Why don’t these cruiserweight champs ever unify?.. Because they all p**** hiding in the homeland!

Huck vs. Arslan II possible for Summer

02/04/2013 by Boxing News

huck563 By Allan Fox: A rematch between WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (35-2-1, 25 KO’s) and Firat Arslan (32-6-2, 22 KO’s) is possible for this summer, according to Kalle Sauerland. Huck defeated the 42-year-old Arslan by a controversial 12 round unanimous decision last November in Germany in a fight that Arslan dominated.

The judges gave Huck the decision by the scores of 115-113, 115-113, and 117-111. Huck took a real beating in that fight, and appeared to only win four rounds at best, but the judges gave it to him anyway. 2012 was a really lucky year for Huck because he perhaps should have lost all three of his fights that he had.

Huck wins another controversial decision

11/05/201211/04/2012 by Boxing News

By Allan Fox: Kallie Sauerland, the promoter for WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (35-2-1, 25 KO’s), is content with the controversial 12 round decision his fighter got over 42-year-old Firat Arslan (32-6-2, 21 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sauerland says that boxing experts chose Huck as deserving the win over Arslan despite a huge amount of fans thinking otherwise. Huck was given the scores of 115-113, 115-113 and 117-111 by the judges.

Boxing: Week review – Huck-Arslan, Gavin-Witter, Prizefighter

11/05/201211/04/2012 by Boxing News

By Ashley King: Oops, forgot to copy and paste it. Here it is;

Boxing’s weekly round-up (WC. 29.09.12)

Whilst there weren’t any huge fights to get us going this week, we did have some good contests over the course of the week that were worth taking note of and that is what I will be discussing, focusing predominantly on the Lucian Bute, Marco Huck fights with some of the British boxing action being mixed in.

Arslan lands with higher connect percentage than Huck but still wins

11/04/201211/04/2012 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: Firat Arslan did what he had to do to earn a decision last night against WBO cruiderweight champion Marco Huck, but the judges still didn’t go along with the program and awarded Huck a decision despite Arslan landing with a far better connect percentage. The three judges were unanimous in seeing Huck as the winner, giving him the controversial decision by the scores of 115-113, 115-113 and 117-111.

According to Bild.de, Arslan landed 235 of 684 punches for a 34 percent connect percentage, whereas Huck connected on 241 of 857 shots for 28 percent. What could have thrown the judges off in scoring the fight was Huck’s higher workrate, but you’d have to be blind not to notice that Huck’s shots were getting blocked all night long. He wasn’t scoring cleanly and it was pretty clear just in watching that he wasn’t having much luck in landing.

Arslan: I was robbed of my victory over Huck

11/04/201211/03/2012 by Boxing News

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.”

Huck looks poor against Arslan; Wladimir fight not a good idea

11/04/201211/03/2012 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (35-2-1, 25 KO’s) proved tonight in beating Firat Arslan (32-6, 21 KO’s) that he doesn’t stand a chance against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (58-3, 50 KO’s) in his hoped for his fight in early 2013. Huck’s promoters at Sauerland Events offered Wladimir 5 million euros [$6.5 million] to fight Huck next year.

That might have been a tempting offer for Wladimir before tonight but after seeing how badly Huck struggled to beat 42-year-old Arlan by a 12 round unanimous decision it’s pretty clear that the 27-year-old Huck doesn’t belong in the same ring with the bigger 6’6″ Wladimir. Huck had his head snapped back by Arslan’s uppercuts all night tonight, and it’s hard to understand what the judges saw in Huck’s performance to give him the victory.

Huck defeats Arslan in controversial decision

11/04/201211/03/2012 by Boxing News

By Jim Dower: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (35-2-1, 25 KO’s) retained his World Boxing Organization title tonight with a controversial 12 round decision over 42-year-old Firat Arslan (32-6-2, 21 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 115-113, 117-111.

Huck took a real beating in the fight, getting hammered in every round by huge uppercuts from the much superior inside fighter Arslan. The uppercut shots would snap Huck’s head each time they’d land cleanly. Huck threw more punches but most of his shots were picked off on the gloves of Arslan.

Huck vs. Arslan tonight

11/03/2012 by Boxing News

(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.