42 Facts About Marco Huck

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Marco Huck held the WBO cruiserweight title from 2009 to 2015, and is the joint-longest reigning cruiserweight world champion of all time, having made thirteen consecutive successful defenses, a division record shared with Johnny Nelson.

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Marco Huck is an ethnic Bosniak, born in Serbia, who moved to Germany with his family when he was eight years old, and has since become a naturalized citizen.

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Marco Huck started Taekwondo and Kickboxing at the age of ten.

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Marco Huck decided to switch to boxing, having participated in the sport since he was 15.

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Marco Huck has notable victories over opponents such as Michael Simms, Claudio Risco, Pietro Aurino and Vadim Tokarev.

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Marco Huck challenged Steve Cunningham on 29 December 2007 for his first world title, the IBF Cruiserweight title.

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Once he was back on his feet, Marco Huck walked back against the ropes signalling that the shot had hurt him and Cunningham went straight in for the attack.

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Marco Huck won the EBU cruiserweight title in September 2008 after defeating Jean Marc Monrose via a 12th round stoppage win.

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Marco Huck made three successful defences defeating Fabio Tuiach, Geoffrey Battelo and Vitaliy Rusal, with all coming inside the distance.

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On 29 August 2009, Marco Huck challenged Argentine boxer Victor Emilio Ramirez for his WBO cruiserweight title at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany.

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On fight night, Marco Huck went the 12 round distance and claimed the WBO title on unanimous decision.

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Marco Huck went on to make 8 successful defenses of the title from December 2009 up until October 2011.

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Marco Huck made the challenge in the post fight press conference of Povetkin's win over Cedric Boswell.

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Marco Huck stated if he was to win the title, he would likely remain at heavyweight to challenge one of the Klitschko brothers, but would be given 10 days by the WBO to decide.

15.

Marco Huck reached out to David Haye and Evander Holyfield to help with sparring.

16.

In round 4, Marco Huck began to let his hands go and found his range, even rocking Povetkin.

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Marco Huck controlled the championship rounds as Povetkin began to show signs of fatigue.

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Marco Huck came close to dropping Povetkin in the final round.

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Marco Huck made a ninth successful defence on 5 May 2012 at the Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany against Ola Afolabi, a rematch to their first match which took place in 2009.

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Marco Huck gathered an early lead in the fight winning at least 5 of the first 7 rounds, before Afolabi started getting into the fight.

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On 25 January 2014, Marco Huck made a defence fighting Firat Arslan for a second time at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Halle in Stuttgart.

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Marco Huck scored his 26th stoppage victory after he stopped Arslan in round 6.

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Arslan started off the fight defensively, however after a couple of rounds, Marco Huck found his way through with power shots.

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Marco Huck matched the record for most consecutive world title defenses at cruiserweight, held by Johnny Nelson, when he successfully retained the WBO cruiserweight title against Mirko Larghetti on 30 August 2014, his thirteenth successful consecutive title defense.

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Marco Huck lost his WBO cruiserweight title and failed to break the record.

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Marco Huck met Afolabi for a fourth time on 27 February 27,2016 at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Germany.

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Marco Huck claimed Afolabi's International Boxing Organization cruiserweight title with the victory after Afolabi failed return for round 11.

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Marco Huck retained his IBO title with a 12-round unanimous decision win over Kucher.

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Marco Huck was pressured throughout the whole 12 rounds with Kucher adopting a southpaw stance and giving Marco Huck problems.

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Marco Huck hurt Kucher in the 8th round after landing a hard right hand and then attempted to finish him off, but could only throw him on the canvas.

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Marco Huck failed to capture the vacant WBC title and lost his IBO title in a one sided 12 round unanimous decision loss.

32.

Marco Huck confirmed he would not be retiring despite his fourth career loss.

33.

On 27 June 2017 Marco Huck announced that he would be participating in the World Boxing Super Series 8-man tournament which would start in September 2017.

34.

When Usyk was asked why he chose Marco Huck, he replied that it was because of his fans.

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Marco Huck has now suffered back to back defeats for the first time in his career.

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On 12 October 2017, Marco Huck told German tabloid BILD, that he would not be retiring from the sport, but rather continue his career in 2018 campaigning at heavyweight.

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Marco Huck made the decision after suffering his second stoppage loss in his last five fights.

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Marco Huck fought his only heavyweight fight in 2012, unsuccessfully challenging Alexander Povetkin for the WBA 'Regular' title.

39.

Marco Huck stopped Saglam in round 4 via TKO of their scheduled 10-round bout.

40.

Almost 4 years after his US debut, Marco Huck had his second fight in the US against Nick Guivas on 17 May 2019.

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Marco Huck dropped Guivas twice in the first round, and was initially awarded the TKO victory.

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Marco Huck dominated Lewadowski and won every round en route to a unanimous decision victory.