Adamek-Cunningham, Miranda-Cruz, Albert – News

From the office of WBC President Jose Sulaiman. On January 17, 2009, the WBC Legends of Boxing Museum, located at the American Sports University in San Bernardino, California, will host a benefit dinner party in honor of former WBC super featherweight world champion Genaro “Chicanito” Hernandez.

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News – Cunningham, Chambers, Fonfara, Berto

World Boxing Council Welterweight World Champion Andre Berto Featured in ESPN the Magazine
(MIAMI, FLA.) – Undefeated Welterweight World Champion Andre Berto (Winter Haven, Fla.) (23-0, 19 Kos) is featured in the January 12 issue of ESPN the Magazine. The six-page article highlights Berto’s road from an accomplished amateur to his second title defense on January 17, 2009.

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Adamek Defeats Cunningham – Boxing News

adamek423445By Eric Thomas: Former World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek (36-1, 24 KOs) won a 12-round split decision over IBF cruiserweight Steve Cunningham (21-2, 11 KOs) on Thursday night at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey. Adamek, 32, hardly fought well, getting dominated in most of the rounds by the champion Cunningham. However, Adamek’s power carried him through to victory, allowing him to drop Cunningham in the 2nd, 4th and 8th rounds. In each case, Cunningham appeared off balanced, standing square to Adamek, and wasn’t at any time hurt by the knockdowns.

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Boxing News: Cunningham Training With Byrd, Limond-Earl, Johnny Tapia

IBF Cruiserweight champion Steve “USS” Cunningham isn’t sitting around waiting for his next fight. The champ is currently in Las Vegas helping former IBF Heavyweight champion Chris Byrd prepare for his maiden voyage into the Light-Heavyweight ranks when Byrd takes on Shaun George May 16th in Las Vegas. Cunningham, 21-1 with eleven knockouts is in camp with Byrd for the fourth time and familiarity seems to bring success for the two fighters.

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Huck Hopes To Turn His Career Around After Loss To Cunningham

huck45343.jpgInternational Boxing Federation # 1 ranked challenger Marco Huck (19-1, 14 KOs) has stated that he will “train even harder than before” and “I was too tense” in response to his 12th round TKO loss to International Boxing Federation cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham on Saturday night in Germany. It would seem that Huck, 23, has a lot of work ahead of him in trying to restart his career. Most specifically, he needs to start with trying to fight better fighters, as up until he took on Cunningham, Huck had only faced one good cruiserweight in his entire career – 35 year-old Vadim Tokarev – and even then, Huck appeared to loss the fight.

I personally rate 14 cruiserweights better than Tokarev, which tells you how far Huck has to go to make it to the top of the division. The main problem is that Huck had an inflated record to begin with, having fought exclusively soft European competition during his entire career, which is typical of fighters based in Germany. So when Huck finally had to face a good cruiserweight in Cunningham, he wasn’t prepared for him physically or mentally. The sad part of it all, unfortunately, is that Cunningham isn’t a top five fighter either, despite being a champion.

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Cunningham Stops Huck

International Boxing Federation cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham (21-1, 11 KOs) turned back German-based challenger Marco Huck (19-1, 14 KOs), stopping him in the 12th round on Saturday night at the Seidensticker Halle, in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. After a strong first two rounds in which Huck, a power puncher, landed a number of hard shots to effectively win both rounds, he faded badly and was ultimately stopped by the 31 year-old Cunningham.

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