Marco Huck

Marco Huck
Data
Birth Name	Muamer Hukic
Fight name	Captain Huck
Weight class	Cruiser weight
nationality
birthday	November 11, 1984
place of birth	Ugao , Sjenica , Sandzak
style	Left delivery
size	1.87 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	48
Victories	41
Knockout victories	28
Defeats	5
draw	1
No value	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Marco Huck (born November 11, 1984 as Muamer Hukić in Ugao , Sjenica municipality , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a German professional boxer and former WBO world cruiserweight champion .

Origin and private matters

Huck comes from a family from Ugao in the municipality of Sjenica in Sandžak in southern Serbia . In 1993 the family moved to Germany, where they initially settled in the Brackwede district of Bielefeld . Huck has two younger siblings and one older sister. He lived in Berlin and has had German citizenship since August 2009 . He has lived in Novi Pazar since 2013 , where he wants to build up a second mainstay in the real estate industry . He is married and has two children.

Amateur and kickboxers

Before his professional career, Huck was a kickboxer and trained with Ulf Schmidt at the Bielefeld Sports Palace. At the age of 16 he became European champion in kickboxing. At the age of 18 he also became the youngest kickboxing world champion of a German team at the 2003 WAKO World Championship in Paris . He then switched to boxing, where he trained at BC Vorwärts Bielefeld and was able to win each of his 15 amateur fights.

Professional boxer since 2004

In 2004, Huck decided to become a professional and attended the training of the Sauerland team , where he proved himself in the sparring against Cengiz Koç . In 2004 he became a professional cruiserweight in Wilfried Sauerland's boxing stable under coach Ulli Wegner . He made his professional debut on November 7th, 2004 with a technical knockout victory in the first round against the Czech Pavel Cirok. After nine more knockout victories against opponents who were built up , he won unanimously on points against Rüdiger May on September 3, 2005 and three months later also unanimously against the US amateur world champion from 1999, Michael Simms .

In January 2006, Huck won by knockout in the seventh round against the Romanian Claudio Rasco, vice European champion of the amateurs 2000 and bronze winner of the amateur world championship in 2001. After three more victories, including on points against the Albanian Nuri Seferi (later European champion of the WBO ) and by knockout against Rachid El Hadak (later EBA European Champion), he boxed on December 16, 2006 in Kempten (Allgäu) for the EU cruiserweight title of the EBU . His opponent in the fight for the vacant title was the Italian southpaw Pietro Aurino, former European champion of the EBU and already two-time World Cup challenger. The fight, which was fiery and very unclean from both sides from the beginning, ended in the second round controversially: There was a scuffle that the referee tried in vain to stop. After two deliberate headbuttings by Aurino, Huck returned the favor with a knee kick that didn't hit the Italian fully. After the boxers separated, the referee deducted two points from Aurino and felt that he was at a disadvantage because Huck was not punished for kicking his knee. Aurino briefly left the ring angry and disqualified himself according to the rules of the EBU; later the fight was rated as a technical knockout .

After a subsequent title defense in Switzerland against the Belgian Ismail Abdoul and a winning title elimination match against the undefeated Russian Vadim Tokarew , Huck received the challenge right against the reigning IBF world champion Steve Cunningham from the USA . On December 29, 2007, however, Huck had to admit defeat to the defending champion in Bielefeld; Huck was only the more active man in the first two rounds and his stamina collapsed towards the end of the fight, and he had to take more and more heavy hits. In the twelfth round, Huck's corner of the ring had an appreciation and threw in the towel during another blow attack by Cunningham, which Huck already seemed exposed to defenseless.

In February 2008, Huck finally separated from Ulli Wegner in order to be trained by Manfred Wolke from now on. In April, however, Huck returned to Wegner because, as he himself said, "there is no point in finding the blame for failures on others."

On May 17, 2008, Huck fought in the Upper Franconian Hall in Bayreuth against František Kasanič from Slovakia and won the fight in the ninth round by technical knockout. In this fight, Huck worked much more level-headed and concentrated than before. After a straight straight from his opponent, he had to box with a broken jaw from the third lap. Despite this injury, Huck got back in the ring on September 20, 2008 and defeated the reigning European champion Jean-Marc Monrose in the twelfth round by technical knockout, making him the new European champion of the EBU. On October 25, 2008 he met the Italian Fabio Tuiach in Oldenburg and won by technical knockout in round 2.

A title defense against the Russian Valeri Brudow in Riesa was planned for January 24, 2009, but he had to cancel the fight a fortnight beforehand. The previously undefeated Belgian Geoffrey Battelo was signed as a replacement, against whom Huck won by technical knockout seconds before the end of the third round. On May 9, 2009, Marco Huck took on the EBU defending champion in Bamberg against the previously undefeated Ukrainian Vitaly Rusal. He was able to defeat his opponent in the fifth round with a technical knockout. On August 29, 2009, Huck finally won the WBO cruiserweight world championship unanimously on points in Halle (Westphalia) against the Argentine and reigning world champion Victor Emilio Ramírez . His first title defense he denied on December 5, 2009 in Ludwigsburg against Ola Afolabi and won unanimously on points. This was followed by a voluntary title defense against the American Adam Richards on March 13, 2010 in Berlin. Huck won by a series of punches after Richards had suffered a cut in the back of the head , by knockout in the third round.

On May 1, 2010, he defended his title against the American Brian Minto , who competed in the cruiserweight division for the first time in his professional career. Minto went down three times in rounds 3 and 5. At the end of the ninth round, he finally gave up the fight in a bad way and then had to be treated in hospital. On August 21, 2010, Huck defended the title in Erfurt with a technical knockout in the fifth round against the North American champion Matt Godfrey, who had nothing to oppose Huck. On December 18, 2010, Huck met the undefeated Russian Denis Lebedew in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin . He suffered a rib fracture in the fourth lap, but had his opponent on the ground in the fifth lap and scored points with aggressive attacks against the technically superior Russian. After the full twelve rounds, Huck was declared the 2-1 point winner, not without controversy, and thus defended his title for the fifth time in a row.

Huck also unanimously defeated the undefeated Israeli Ran Nakash, who could only win two of the twelve rounds and had to take a lot, on April 2, 2011 on points. On July 16, 2011, he defended his title after initial difficulties by knockout in round 10 against the Argentine and former WBA light heavyweight champion Hugo Hernán Garay . Garay went down once in the first round; In round 3, Huck was punished with a point deduction for hitting the back of his opponent's head. On October 22, 2011, he boxed against the Argentine Rogelio Omar Rossi . In the unclean fight, Rossi was punished for low blows in the third round with a point deduction. Huck also received two point deductions for hits after the round gong, but scored two knockdowns against Rossi in the fifth round and won by knockout in the sixth round.

On February 25, 2012, Marco Huck boxed in the Stuttgart Porsche Arena for the regular WBA world heavyweight title against Alexander Povetkin , who had won the vacant title after Wladimir Klitschko was named WBA superchampion. Due to a narrow defeat on points, Huck missed the opportunity to become the second German heavyweight world champion after Max Schmeling . The verdict was controversial, because Huck had his opponent several times on the verge of knockout defeat.

After the fight, Huck had to decide within ten days whether he wanted to keep his WBO world cruiserweight title or continue boxing in the top weight class. He decided to return to the cruiserweight division. The WBO title defense against Ola Afolabi on May 5, 2012 in Erfurt went over twelve rounds and ended in a draw; thus Marco Huck remained world champion. On November 3, 2012, Huck defended his title in Halle (Westphalia) against the former WBA cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan . He won this fight by an, albeit controversial, unanimous decision on points (115: 113, 115: 113, 117: 111).

On June 8, 2013, he played a third duel against Ola Afolabi, which he won by majority decision on points. The cruiserweight championship fight between Huck and his challenger Firat Arslan on September 14, 2013 in Stuttgart was canceled at short notice by Huck for health reasons. The fight finally took place on January 25, 2014. In the sixth round, the referee stopped the fight after Arslan had been down twice. His second fight in 2014 rose on August 30, 2014 in the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle (Westphalia) against the Italian Mirko Larghetti, which Huck won on points (116: 112, 116: 112, 118: 110). A few months after his victory, Huck announced in October 2014 that he would not renew his contract with Sauerland Event .

On August 14, 2015 he lost his WBO world champion belt by knocking out in the 11th round in the Prudential Center in Newark (New Jersey) against the Poland Krzysztof Głowacki .

Huck got another World Cup chance on February 27, 2016 in the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle (Westphalia) against IBO world champion Ola Afolabi , whom he defeated by giving up in the 10th round. His first IBO title defense should take place on September 24, 2016 in the Frankfurt Festhalle against the Briton Ovill McKenzie. However, McKenzie canceled the fight at short notice (four days before the fight) due to illness. As a substitute, he met Ukrainian Dmytro Kutscher on November 19, 2016 in the TUI Arena in Hanover , whom he defeated unanimously on points after 12 rounds despite a fracture of the metacarpal bone in the 4th round (117: 111, 119: 109 , 117: 111).

On the instructions of the WBC, on April 1, 2017, the title unification against the mandatory challenger of the WBC, Mairis Briedis, took place in the Dortmund Westfalenhallen . Huck lost the fight unanimously on points (111: 116, 110: 117, 109: 118) and had to give up his IBO belt.

As a participant in the World Boxing Super Series , he met WBO world champion Oleksandr Ussyk in the quarter-finals in Berlin's Max-Schmeling-Halle on September 9, 2017 . Here he was defeated by a technical knockout in the tenth round.

In October 2017, Huck announced that he would try again in the heavyweight division. He fought his first heavyweight fight on June 16, 2018 in the Ballhausforum in Unterschleißheim against the German-Turkish Yakup Saglam. He won the fight after two knockdowns by a technical knockout in the fourth round. Almost a year later, on May 17, 2019, he boxed in Connecticut against the American Nick Guivas. This fight ended after the eighth round and was declared invalid due to an accidental foul.

At the instruction of the EBU , after long negotiations, the European championship fight against the current European champion Joe Joyce from Great Britain should finally take place on January 11, 2020 in the TUI Arena in Hanover . However, this fight had to be canceled due to Huck's hand injury.

Hucks boxing style

Huck's boxing style is very offensive, explosive and aggressive, which always results in situations in which he is completely open to counter attacks. Huck is easily irritated and then falls into hasty, unclean actions.

successes

• Amateur record: 15 wins - 0 losses
• Professional balance: 41 wins - 5 losses - 1 draw - 1 invalid

• December 16, 2006: European Cruiserweight Champion of the EBU (1 title defense)
• May 17, 2008: IBF Intercontinental Cruiserweight Champion
• September 20, 2008: European Cruiserweight Champion of the EBU (3 title defenses)
• August 29, 2009: WBO world cruiserweight champion (13 title defenses)
• February 27, 2016: IBO World Cruiserweight Champion (1 title defense)

List of boxing matches

year	Day	Opponent / target	place	Result	Type	Round
2004	November 7th	Pavel Cirok	Rockfabrik Nürnberg , Nürnberg	victory	TKO	1/4
	20th November	Pavel Zima	bigBOX Allgäu , Kempten	victory	TKO	1/4
	December 4th	Wlodek Kopec	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin-Neukölln	victory	TKO	1/4
	December 18th	Tomas Mrazek	Upper Franconia Hall , Bayreuth	victory	TKO	3/6
2005	15. January	Ervin Slonka	Boxtempel Berlin, Berlin	victory	TKO	4/6
	March 12th	Aleksandrs Borhovs	City Hall, Zwickau	victory	TKO	4/6
	April 23	Muhammed Ali Durmaz	Westfalenhallen , Dortmund	victory	TKO	4/6
	May 21	Stefan Kusnier	Zdzieszowice , Poland	victory	KO	1/6
	June 11th	Tipton Walker	bigBOX Allgäu , Kempten	victory	TKO	2/8
	2nd July	Leri Okhanashvili	Sports hall Karl-Eckel-Weg, Hattersheim am Main	victory	TKO	2/8
	September 3	Rudiger May	International Congress Center Berlin , Berlin	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
	December 17th	Michael Simms	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	Points win (unanimous)	8/8
2006	January 28th	Claudio Rasco	Tempodrom , Berlin	victory	KO	7/8
	4th of March	Lee Swaby	EWE Arena , Oldenburg	victory	task	6/8
	3rd of June	Nuri Seferi	TUI Arena , Hanover	victory	Points win (unanimous)	10/10
	September 23rd	Rachid El Hadak	Rittal Arena , Wetzlar	victory	KO	8/8
	December 16	Pietro Aurino vacant EBU European Cruiserweight Championship	bigBOX Allgäu , Kempten	victory	TKO	2/12
2007	January 20th	Ismail Abdoul EBU cruiserweight title defense	St. Jakob-Arena , Basel	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	May 26	Vadim Tokarev IBF Cruiserweight Eliminator	Jako-Arena , Bamberg	victory	Points win (majority decision)	12/12
	December 29th	Steve Cunningham IBF World Cruiserweight Championship	Seidensticker Halle , Bielefeld	defeat	TKO	12/12
2008	12. April	Leon Nzama-Nawezhi	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg	victory	TKO	5/8
	17th of May	Frantisek Kasanic vacant IBF Cruiserweight Intercontinental Championship	Upper Franconia Hall , Bayreuth	victory	TKO	9/12
	September 20th	Jean Marc Monrose EBU European Cruiserweight Championship	Seidensticker Halle , Bielefeld	victory	TKO	12/12
	October 25	Fabio Tuiach EBU cruiserweight title defense	Weser-Ems-Halle , Oldenburg	victory	TKO	2/12
2009	January 24th	Geoffrey Battelo EBU cruiserweight title defense	Natural gas arena , Riesa	victory	TKO	3/12
	May 9	Vitaliy Rusal EBU cruiserweight title defense	Jako-Arena , Bamberg	victory	TKO	5/12
	29th August	Victor Emilio Ramirez WBO World Cruiserweight Championship	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westphalia)	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	December 5th	Ola Afolabi WBO cruiserweight title defense	Arena Ludwigsburg , Ludwigsburg	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2010	March 13th	Adam Richards WBO cruiserweight title defense	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	KO	3/12
	1st of May	Brian Minto WBO cruiserweight title defense	Weser-Ems-Halle , Oldenburg	victory	task	10/12
	August 21	Matt Godfrey WBO cruiserweight title defense	Erfurter Messe , Erfurt	victory	TKO	5/12
	December 18th	Denis Lebedew WBO cruiserweight title defense	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	Points victory (polyphonic)	12/12
2011	2nd of April	Ran Nakash WBO cruiserweight title defense	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westphalia)	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
	16th of July	Hugo Hernan Garay WBO cruiserweight title defense	Olympic Ice Sports Center , Munich	victory	KO	10/12
	23rd October	Rogelio Omar Rossi WBO cruiserweight title defense	Arena Ludwigsburg , Ludwigsburg	victory	KO	6/12
2012	February 25	Alexander Powetkin WBA World Heavyweight Championship	Porsche Arena , Stuttgart	defeat	Point defeat (majority decision)	12/12
	5th of May	Ola Afolabi WBO cruiserweight title defense	Erfurter Messe , Erfurt	draw	Majority decision	12/12
	November 3rd	Firat Arslan WBO cruiserweight title defense	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westphalia)	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2013	8th June	Ola Afolabi WBO cruiserweight title defense	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	Points win (majority decision)	12/12
2014	January 25th	Firat Arslan WBO cruiserweight title defense	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle , Stuttgart	victory	TKO	6/12
	August 30th	Mirko Larghetti WBO cruiserweight title defense	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westphalia)	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2015	August 14th	Krzysztof Głowacki WBO cruiserweight title defense	Prudential Center , Newark, New Jersey	defeat	KO	11/12
2016	27th of February	Ola Afolabi IBO World Cruiserweight Championship	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westphalia)	victory	task	10/12
	November 19th	Dmytro coachman IBO cruiserweight title defense	TUI Arena , Hanover	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12/12
2017	April 1st	Mairis Briedis WBC / IBO Cruiserweight Title Association	Westfalenhallen , Dortmund	defeat	Point defeat (unanimous)	12/12
	the 9th of September	Oleksandr Ussyk WBO Cruiserweight Championship World Boxing Super Series Quarterfinals	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	defeat	TKO	10/12
2018	June 16	Yakup Saglam	Ballhausforum, Unterschleißheim	victory	TKO	4/10
2019	17th of May	Nick Guivas	Foxwoods Resort, Connecticut	Invalid	No value	8/12
2020	29th August	Dennis Lewandowski	Eisstadion Braunlage, Braunlage
(Source: BoxRec database )

Others

As run music Marco Huck chose the song Lose Yourself from Eminem . Between February 2016 and April 2017, Marco Huck fought exclusively on the free TV broadcaster RTL . During his time at Sauerland Event between 2004 and 2014, his fights were broadcast on ARD .

Since the beginning of 2015, Huck has had its own marketing company, Huck Sports Promotion GmbH, based in Berlin. The agency's managing director is his brother and manager Kenan Hukić.

Since August / September 2020, Marco Huck and his brother Kenan Hukić have been cooperating with a vehicle expert office in Berlin that goes by the name of Huck .

Web links

Commons : Marco Huck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Marco Huck in the BoxRec database
• Marco Huck's website
• Aid project for refugees MH-hilft e. V.
• Cooperation partner of Marco Huck & Kenan Hukic

supporting documents

1. ↑ Boxing star moves to Serbia. Bild.de, August 24, 2013, accessed June 14, 2015.
2. ↑ "Captain" Huck now "Papa" Huck! ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Sauerland Event, August 11, 2012, accessed on January 26, 2014.
3. ↑ Marco Huck becomes a father. Boxwelt.com, April 16, 2014, accessed June 14, 2015.
4. ↑ Faltering Russian trees . sueddeutsche.de. February 26, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
5. ↑ WBO sets Huck a class ultimatum. bz-berlin.de, February 19, 2012.
6. ↑ Return to cruiser weight. mopo.de, March 8, 2012.
7. ↑ Huck retains title after a draw. Stern.de
8. ↑ Huck title defense: "A draw would have been fair". Spiegel Online, November 4, 2012, accessed June 14, 2015.
9. ↑ Marco Huck cancels fight against Friedberger Firat Arslan. augsburger-allgemeine.de, September 14, 2013.
10. ↑ Huck defeats Larghetti and remains world champion. Spiegel Online, August 31, 2014, accessed August 2, 2015.
11. ^ After Huck separated from boxing promoter Sauerland - The fight for coach Wegner. Bild.de, October 2, 2014, accessed on August 6, 2015.
12. ↑ Missed historic record - Marco Huck loses cruiserweight world title to Krzysztof Głowacki. T-Online, August 15, 2015.
13. ↑ Huck after the title comeback: "I'm back here". ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) RTL.de, February 28, 2016.
14. ↑ Huck defends world title despite a broken hand T-Online, November 20, 2015.
15. ↑ Marco Huck conceded a significant defeat against Mairis Briedis and missed WBC-Krone RTL.de, April 4, 2017
16. ↑ World Boxing Super Series - The Highlights: Marco Huck vs. Oleksandr Usyk ran.de, September 10, 2017.
17. ↑ Video: Marco Huck raves about his performance after his win against Yakup Saglam. Sport1.de, June 17, 2018
18. ↑ Huck vs Joyce for the time being “off” Kasten.de, December 23, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020.

predecessor	title	successor
Victor Emilio Ramírez	Cruiserweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) August 29, 2009 - August 14, 2015	Krzysztof Głowacki
Ola Afolabi	Cruiserweight Boxing Champion ( IBO ) February 27, 2016 - April 1, 2017	vacant Kevin Lerena

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