by David P. Greisman

Marco Huck had been a career cruiserweight who had held a world title for two and a half years when he moved up to heavyweight to challenge Alexander Povetkin.

That was early 2012. The fight ended with Povetkin winning a debated majority decision, retaining the World Boxing Association’s “regular” belt — Wladimir Klitschko was and remains the sanctioning body’s “super” champion in the division.

Since then, Huck has been back at 200, going 4-0-1 and adding those defenses to a title reign that began in 2009. He’ll defend against Krzysztof Glowacki on Aug. 14 on a “Premier Boxing Champions” card on Spike TV in Newark, New Jersey, featuring Steve Cunningham vs. Antonio Tarver in a heavyweight main event.

And Huck wants to be back in a heavyweight main event himself in the future.

“Everybody knows, the whole world knows that I actually won the fight against Povetkin. Povetkin himself actually came to me after the fight and told me that he never wants to see me again,” Huck said through a translator on July 23.

“But my ambition has also been to fight the best in the heavyweight division,” he said. “Looking at the division right now, just the fight of Deontay Wilder against [Eric] Molina was actually a bit embarrassing to be honest. I want to go back to the heavyweight division in the future and take over there as I did in the cruiserweight division.”

The Glowacki fight will be Huck’s first appearance in nearly a year, as he waited to depart from promoter Sauerland Event. The 30-year-old is 38-2-1 with 26 KOs, with Cunningham adding the other defeat in a cruiserweight title fight back in 2007 and the draw coming in 2012 in the second fight of Huck’s trilogy with Ola Afolabi.

Glowacki, 28, is 24-0 with 15 KOs.

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