Captain Huck ends rivalry with trilogy victory!

By Jack Price @PriceyJ97 - @BoxingOpinions1

It was one of the most highly-anticipated months. The build-up to this fight, especially in Germany, was terrific for a cruiserweight bout. The first two fights were action packed and most were expecting it to be even bigger and better this time as they believed it may be third time lucky for Afolabi and he may have finally worked the German out. Unfortunately the fight didn't quite live up to the hype and Afolabi didn't get the victory some were expecting.

Another great fight scheduled for May 5th!

The night of boxing on May 5th has just got even better. First they 
gave us Mayweather-Cotto, then they gave us Alvarez-Mosely and now they've given us George Groves Vs Robert Stieglitz and Marco Huck Vs 
Ola Afolabi on a different show. 

British and commonwealth super-middleweight champion George Groves will challenge WBO world champion Stieglitz in a long awaited fight that is 
set to take place in Germany. 

The main event of the card will see WBO cruiserweight champion Marco 
Huck defend his titles in a rematch against Ola Afolabi. 

Huck gets hand raised in 1st fight
with Afolabi.

Stieglitz was originally meant to face Mikel Kessler in April (the 
fight had been pushed back from November) but the bout was called off 
after Kessler pulled out and instead chose to fight light-heavyweight Allan Green. Groves was also scheduled to fight a different opponent. 
On May 16th he was going to clash with Kenny Anderson but pulled due to 
a 'back injury'. The same day he was announced the mandatory challenger 
for the WBO title. 

'St George' Groves has done just about everything possible at domestic 
level and is now attempting to make a statement at world level. It is 
sometimes easy to forget that he is only 24 years old when you think of 
everything has done already in his career. But, Stieglitz is a very 
experienced pro that may make Groves look like an un-experienced 
prospect on May 5th. If he doesn't, then Groves may well be a very 
special fighter indeed. 

The first fight between Huck and Afolabi was a very close fight. The 
scorecards read 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112, all in favour of Marco 
Huck. Afolabi is Britain's No.1 ranked cruiserweight and has said many 
times that he will give the fight of his life on May 5th. 

All four of the big fights will be shown live on BoxNation (SKY 456) so 
it is shaping up to be a fantastic day for fight fans all around the 
world.

Huck gets rematch with Afolabi!

Boxing fans have yet another reason to look forward to May 5th. First we got Mayweather Vs Cotto with Alvarez Vs Mosely on the under-card, and now we have Marco Huck Vs Ola Afolabi for the WBO cruiserweight title.

It will be the second time that these two fighters meet in the ring. Their first meeting came back in 2009 when Huck won a close points decision but Afolabi gave him a very good fight.

Huck will have to lose around 5 kilos to get back down to cruiserweight after his move up to heavyweight to fight WBA champion Alexander Povetkin where he lost in a fight that some people say could have gone either way.

''Now he has to lose 5 kilos. That is something new for him. He has a lot of muscles, so it won't be easy, but we will get it done during the hard preparation'' said Huck's coach Ulli Wegner.

The fight will be held in Erfurt in Germany which Team Sauerland General Manager is very happy about. ''We look forward to fighting in Erfurt again'' he said. '' Huck has great memories of the city. In August 2010, he stopped Matt Godfrey at the Messehalle.''

All the negotiations for the fight have been completed and the contracts are ready to be signed.

May 5th is shaping up to be one amazing night of boxing!