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by Per Ake Persson
December 29, 2007
IBF cruiser champ Steve Cunningham stopped
brave German challenger Marco Huck in the 12th and final round of this
Sauerland Event promotion. Huck was trailing on points going into the last
round, took a lot of chances and walked onto a counter. He fell but it was
ruled a slip. Cunningham saw the light and followed up forcing Ulli Wegner
in Huck´s corner to throw in the towel at 1.56. After eleven it was scored
108-101 and 106-103 for Cunningham and 105-104 for Huck. The German
challenger was very strong, willing and brave but "USS" Cunningham knew a
little too much for him, showed patience and coolness under pressure. "I´ll
be back" said Marco afterwards and he was probably in too deep too soon.
Cunningham is now likely to fight Jean Marc Mormeck in France.
In the co-headliner hardpunching Nicaraguan Jose Alfaro won the vacant WBA
lightweight with a split twelve round decision over Thailand´s Prawet
Singwancha. Singchawa was floored in the second and eighth rounds, had
points deducted in rounds nine and ten - but did just fine inbetween in his
slick southpaw style. Alfaro had a point deducted in the eleventh for his
share of large number of low blows but had the power and that made the
difference. It was scored 114-109 twice for Alfaro and 112-111 for Singchawa.
Cuban cruiser Yoan Pablo Hernandez knocked out New Zealand´s Mohamed Azzaoui
in the first with a single left hand with the WBA Fedelatin and WBC Latino
titles at stake.
Source: This material is provided by Boxing Press, and Per is the
BP European Feature Writer.
