Marco Huck

Muamer Hukić (born 11 November 1984), best known as Marco Huck, is a Bosniak, nationalized German professional boxer.

As an amateur kickboxer, he won a gold medal at the W.A.K.O European championships in 2002 and 2003.

Amateur Kickboxing

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

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

Before challenging for his first world title, Huck gained a record of 19 wins with no losses.

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

After eleven hard fought and exhausting rounds, the twelfth begun; Cunningham was landing hard shots as Huck kept moving forward.

Following a rough clinch between the two, Cunningham landed a vicious straight right counter, the fighters clinched and Huck fell.

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

For the remainder of the round, Cunningham chased his German counterpart across the ring hitting him with a barrage of hard shots which ended when Huck's corner threw in the towel and ended the beating.

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

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

He 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.

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

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

The judges score it 116–111, 116–111, and 115–112 in favour of Huck.

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

Notable opponents he defeated included unanimous decisions over Ran Nakash and Ola Afolabi, the latter who he went on to fight a further three times, TKO wins over Matt Godfrey and Brian Minto and a split decision win over future unified world champion Denis Lebedev.

After a string of defenses, Huck challenged Alexander Povetkin for the WBA heavyweight title.

In December 2011, a deal was reached for Povetkin to make his second defence against Huck on 25 February 2012 at Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.

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

It was noted that Huck would not vacate his WBO title, until after the fight, where he would assess the situation.

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.

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

In January 2012, the promoters of Huck, Povetkin and Rahman attended a meeting where they discussed the winner of Povetkin vs. Huck would defend the WBA title against Rahman next.

During this time, trainer Teddy Atlas failed to travel to Russia and announced he had parted ways with Povetkin.

Russian trainer Alexander Zimin stepped in on short notice.

For his debut at heavyweight, Huck weighed 209.4 pounds and Povetkin weighed 229.2 pounds.

Povetkin won the fight via majority decision.

The fight proved to be a tough test for Povetkin.

One judge scored the fight a 114–114 draw, with the remaining two judges scoring the fight 116–113 and 116–112 in favour of Povetkin.

All three ringside announcers from EPIX scored the fight in favour of Huck.

Chisora and Dimitrenko, who were sat ringside, scored the fight a draw.

Arthur Abraham and Tomasz Adamek scored the fight clearly for Huck.

The opening round started off slow however Povetkin started taking over the fight landing body shots and using his straight rights.

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

Huck also held the IBO cruiserweight title from 2016 to 2017, the European cruiserweight title from 2008 to 2009, and has challenged once for the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title in 2012.

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.

Huck started Taekwondo and Kickboxing at the age of ten.