Huck: I Would Beat Tyson Fury Like I Beat Povetkin

By Luke Furman

WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (38-3-1, 26KOs) is still motivated to capture a world title at heavyweight.

The popular German star is coming back on February 27th in a fourth battle with IBO cruiserweight king Ola Afolabi at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany.

Prior to Huck's knockout loss to Krzysztof Glowacki on August 14th, he was pushing to get Wladimir Klitschko in the ring. Last month, Klitschko also suffered an upset loss when Tyson Fury outboxed him to secure a twelve round unanimous decision and the WBO/IBF/WBA/IBO world titles. 

Huck has discussed the idea of competing as a heavyweight for a very long time and in 2012 he backed up his talk by moving up in weight to challenge Alexander Povetkin, who at the time held the WBA "regular" championship.

Most were expecting an easy win for Povetkin. Huck turned the tables on the champion and had Povetkin hurt several times in the fight. After the fight was over, most ringside observers had the bout scored for Huck. The judges disagreed and awared the fight to Povetkin with a twelve round majority decision (114-114, 116-113, 116-112).

Huck would love the opportunity to face Fury and he believes he would beat him.

"Fury beat Klitschko," said Hook. "But he is not a great champion because he didn't show anything [in that fight]. If I get the opportunity, I will show you how to fight with Fury. I will beat him like I beat Povetkin."

Luke Furman covers boxing for bokser.org