Huck-Lebedev

[bennie]

Ouch!

[Newport Daz]

This is a fight I can't wait for. Lebedev is a beast and I think he's going to KO huck. Cunnigham who's not known as a massive puncher knocked him out and Ofalabi had him in trouble and Lebedev is a much bigger hitter than either. He's got good skills and Huck always comes to fight. This fight has kind of flown under the radar of late, but will be a far more entertaining fight than Pascal Vs Hopkins.

[urbanraida]

Looking forward to it, never seen DL fight before so I'm quite hyped. Thank God for old school satellite dishes and ARD.

[orbtastic]

I think Huck's getting hurt here.

[Newport Daz]

For those who haven't seen it, this is how he won the right to face Huck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5pmVf5KTc

[bfchunk]

This is a proper tear up. Looking forward to it and my feeling too is Huck will be ko'd

[Final round]

Clubs at the ready!!

I think Lebedev stops Huck cold.

[whiskey]

I think Huck is a big strong bruiser - but he is vulnerable.

Denis Denis will make frankenfurter out of him me thinks.

[Coco]

Lets have your preview Bennie

[bennie]

Marco Huck, and you word his name carefully in beer, defends his WBO cruiserweight title against Russian puncher Denis Lebedev on Saturday night in Berlin.
It is defence No. 5 for the gutsy, likeable, saleable Huck, a Serbian based in Germany who learned well from his only career defeat at the hands of Philadelphia's Steve "USS" Cunningham in an ambitious crack at the IBF cruiserweight title in 2007 (stopped in 12 rounds). Since then, Huck has reeled off 11 wins, picked up the European cruiserweight title with a 12-round stoppage of dangerous Frenchman Jean Marc Monrose and then the WBO belt with a solid 12-round decision over good Argentine Victor Ramirez, not to be confused with the animal that was Victor Galindez. Huck, 26, really is an improved young fighter.
Talking of animals, Lebedev looks a bit savage in the ring as he unloads quick, jarring southpaw left hands. He earned his chance with a thumping second-round stoppage of Alexander Alexeev earlier this year in Germany, so Team Huck know all about him, and he smashed Enzo Maccarinelli in three rounds last year in Manchester, so we know all about him, and we know that he is destructive. Unbeaten in 21 fights (16 early), Lebedev has taken out nine of his last 10 opponents, which looks great on paper but is not always such a great thing going into a potentially gruelling 12-rounder, the kind of gruelling 12-rounder Huck knows he can do. Lebedev last went the distance in 2004, a 10-rounder. He has never done 12 rounds.
I believe that Huck stands a real chance if he survives the early danger rounds with Lebedev, and Huck will be boxing to strict orders, guard high as usual, picking hard counters to try and discourage the challenger. Let us remember that Huck can whack himself. This is a man who stopped an opponent when suffering from a broken jaw, who was back in the ring just four months later, who chased an opponent right out of the ring.
Nevertheless, Lebedev, 26, holds the obvious edge in power and we can expect him to rock Huck a few times as Amir Khan was rocked a few times by Marcos Maidana over the weekend. Can he finish Huck? I might be going out on a limb here, I might look like as bad as all those tipsters who gave George Foreman no chance prior to Joe Frazier in 1973 (bar Wally Bartleman), but what the hell, I don't bet, and I don't think Lebedev will finish the champion.
Huck, much like Khan, has enough ability to get through the nightmares on the way to a late stoppage or a points win.

[sy86]

Had a picture with Lebedev just before the Enzo fight incase he did a number on him, only for the camera to break.

Seemed like a nice guy and his team were streight out of Rocky 4.

I'm rooting for Lebedev.

[SweetLikeSugar]

Anybidy know if this is on UK TV?

[alexpaterson]

Should be an absoloute tear-up! It's got a decent undercard as well I think. Huck late for me both are there to be hit and are big punchers

[WelshDevil]

Superb match-up and this can only end in a KO. I favour Lebedev to expose Hucks flaws and end this in the mid rounds. Gonna be brutal and entertaining. Really looking forward to this one.

[MightyWarrior]

Yes great fight for the year's end, an X rated punch up guaranteed.

The Germans must be very nervous and would love to have avoided this one, I'm sure.
After bringing back their precious star to a world title, they now have to take on the Russian big truck. And there's no way they can be sure their man will negotiate a very tough defence here.

Huck is very hot headed, and can be drawn into a tear up. So they'll probably be pointing him to the Froch fight, you'd think, to show him how it should be done.
They don't know how good the Russian's chin is either, it could be cast of iron for all they know. They do know he can punch.

Very hard to call, a 50/50 fight I suppose. But like Bennie I think Huck might ( somehow ) pull off a very hard points win. But it could easily go badly wrong.

No chance of seeing this I suppose - ARD TV have gone off the old free satellite a while back

[Autobarn]

i think lebedev will smash his face in. huck has made the most of his style, but he doesn't relax in the ring and can only fight in bursts.

let's see if lebedev really is the cruiserweight heir apparent that he has appeared to be in his last 2 or 3 bouts in which he has destroyed or broken down WBO ranked contenders.

[Counter-puncher]

I would estimate that at lest 98% of neutrals wish to see Huck get banged out totally harshly like bruv. Lebedev is a fvckin badman. Denis denis oh with your eyes so blue, Denis denis, I'm getting sparked by you Denis denis oh can i take a shot from you-oo-ooo

[SweetLikeSugar]

I would estimate that at lest 98% of neutrals wish to see Huck get banged out totally harshly like bruv. Lebedev is a fvckin badman. Denis denis oh with your eyes so blue, Denis denis, I'm getting sparked by you Denis denis oh can i take a shot from you-oo-ooo

It would be great if that was his entrance music tomorrow.

[dookus]

Lebedev, aside from being the scariest-looking bastard this side of Valuev, should have way too much power and precision for Huck, whose defence isn't all that and leaves himself way too open to counters. If Cunningham can stop him, I'm pretty sure Lebedev's going to bust him up within 6 or 7 rounds.

[Autobarn]

bennie is right to bring up huck's experience gained in world title fights, some of them vs good fighters. this should be a factor in tonight's fight, as well as lebedev's lack of rounds. huck surprised us before vs agood russian, tokarev. huck was able to push him back and really took the steam out of him (a top 10 cruiserweight who could punch). but i think lebedev is too hard and compact for huck, and i reckon the russian won'tr be denied.

[orbtastic]

I'm not a fan of streams but will try and look out for one if it's tonight.

[MightyWarrior]

Huck and tennis star Novak Djokovic could amost be brothers.

[Deno1986]

Really looking forward to this one. Lebedev is a wrecking ball who is open to be outboxed but as was already pointed out Kapt'n Huck does like a scrap and if it turns into one, there is only one winner. Lebedev is great value in the bookies for anyone that is interested - 6/5 outright and 2/1 for a stoppage(VC)