Boxer always beats brawler. Huck is so one-dimensional it's laughable - his only chance was landing one of those many hayemakers. Suspect chin too!
"I love Germany. We come back" -Cunningham. Maybe a fight vs. Hernandez of Sauerland stable, if Haye is occupied. That would be nice.
A fighter that fights with emotion in all his fights, will eventually lose to his lack of discipline. Marco showed us all in a few of his fights that if you frustrate him, he's average at best.. honestly. He's 23 and there's room for improvement, but he needs to start fighting smart, not on emotions.
Suspect chin? There was no evidence of that. Huck looked very limited, but I didn't see anything wrong with his ability to take punches He took an awful lot, and still didn't go down. He was just completely gassed rather than hurt
I'm sure I only think this because I read that he started as a kickboxer, but Huck punches like a kickboxer. He gets so square and seems to push. Cunningham was better than I thought, though I don't think he's great. I think Cunningham won it with his great body work in the early rounds. He must have landed 30 left and right hooks in the first five rounds which really tired Huck and made him desperate. Or, Huck just wasn't in good enough shape to go a hard 12, either way he got tired and sloppy/borderline dirty. Think he could have been docked a point or two.
If you stay on the stream you can watch Yuan Pablo Hernandez. Biggest Cuban Cruiserweight prospect and definitely a name in the future. He fights Mohamed Azzaoui. Last Maccarinelli opponent.
It's long been understood that this is not always the case mate..An intelligent brawler can beat an intelligent boxer any day of the week and vice versa..See Cotto-Malinaggi, Pavlik-Taylor, Cotto-Judah, Tszyu-Mitchell...you see my point..Huck did not know how to adapt..he needed to change up his gameplan early and could'nt...not enough experience maybe?
Not me though, emanuel_augustus, and I hate to say it but people just won't listen to me. The 23 year older came in to steamroll the 31 year older titlist outa there and most would reason that if he struggled with Wlodarczyk (37-2, 27KOs) in Poland that he would fail to one young undefeated powerpuncher in Huck and with the german crowd behind him. Well, the trick is right there, Steve USS would never lose so soon and even if the German would com'on like he did in the first two stanzas. Cunningham picked up and contolled the tempo of the fight with world championship level experience and capitalised on a youngster running desperately into shots. Huck will be back but this is all Steve tonight. Congrats USS Cunningham.