PBC: Tarver vs Cunninnham & Huck vs Glowacki Review
By George A. Dampeer, Real Combat Media DC/DE Boxing Correspondent
Newark, NJ ( August 15th, 2015)– Al Haymon’s PBC boxing returned Friday night on Spike TV in Newark, New Jersey with a cruiserweight bout between Germany’s reigning champion Marco Huck (38-3-1, 28 KOs) against Polish challenger Krzysztof Glowacki (25-0,16 KOs) and a heavyweight bout between Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver (31-6-1,22KOs) against Steve “U.S.S.”Cunningham (28-7,13KOs).
The cruiserweight bout was to supposed to be a showcase for Huck, who was lining up a potential fight with Roy Jones Jr (in attendance). But of course, the great sport of boxing can never be presumed on paper. It was an atmosphere that resembled something of an olympic arena or a European venue. Both fighters were making their American debut, but carried over their respective contingents in full capacity. So much so that it was difficult to tell which fight was the main event.
The fighters did their best to match the intensity of the arena with the challenger Glowacki taking the fight to Huck. Both fighters were naturally aggressors, but it was Huck that was forced on the back foot. Glowacki was able to get himself a decent lead on Steve Farhood’s scored card (as well as mine) winning the 3 of the first 4 rounds. However the challenger slowed down enough that Huck was able to even things up. In the sixth round he ensured that by knocking down Glowacki with a left hook. It was a delayed reaction by Glowacki and spent 8 seconds on the mat, but eventually made the count. Huck, like you would assume, went immediately to Glowacki to finish him off, but he was caught several times by the desperate challenger enough to get him through the round.
Glowacki fought his way back to getting his share of rounds, but heading into the championship rounds, Huck was winning on the official score cards. Everything changed however in the 11th when Glowacki let off a right hand, left hook combination on Huck, who made the cardinal sin of backing up with his hands down and was caught by both punches that sent him down. It was the first time the champion had been down in his career. He would get up, but the birds were still circling his head. Glowacki went for the kill, landing two punishing left hands that sent Huck through the ropes to seal the upset KO victory.
The heavyweight main event however did not match the excitement. The bar was set pretty high for it to do so, but still an intriguing fight. There were not many key highlights for the fight other than a moment in the fourth when Cunningham seemed to have gotten his legs tangled as Tarver land two punches and looked to be hurt. The fight carried an ebb and flow of the two styles of both fighters, which was noted by the commentators and fighters like Sugar Ray watching at home. It was a matter of whose you appreciated more: the work rate and pressure of Cunningham, or the precision and power punches of Tarver.
It was a fight that you’re almost glad you didn’t have to judge. There were so many even rounds and the fact that many of the rounds weren’t really overwhelmingly won by either fighter made it even harder. In the end it showed just how difficult to be once the scored cards were read 115-113 for Cunningham, 115-114 for Tarver, and 114-114 which resulted in a split draw.
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