Marco Huck has not been in the ring for almost 600 days—but he still has big goals. He wants to make another attempt at a world title.
Former boxing world champion Marco Huck has celebrated a successful comeback. On Saturday in Halle/Westphalia, the 41-year-old heavyweight defeated Czech Vaclav Pejsar by unanimous decision in his first fight in 595 days. Now the Berlin native wants to make another attempt at a world title.
The victory against Pejsar was Huck’s 44th win in his 51st professional fight (five defeats, one draw, one no contest). Huck had previously celebrated a points victory against Greece’s Evgenios Lazaridis in Berlin in the summer of 2024, after not having been in the ring for almost four years.
Boxing: Huck sets his sights on world championship fight
According to his own statement, Huck is aiming for a world championship fight. The heavyweight division is currently ruled by Ukrainian triple world champion Alexander Usyk (WBA, WBC, and IBF), while the WBO title is held by Britain’s Fabio Wardley. Most recently, Huck also brought a fight against WBC interim champion Agit Kabayel (Bochum) into play. However, Kabayel himself is aiming for a world championship fight against Usyk.
Huck held the WBO world cruiserweight championship belt from 2009 to 2015. He came close to a heavyweight title in 2012 when he narrowly lost on points to Russia’s Alexander Povetkin. In his last major fight to date, he was defeated by the then cruiserweight champion Usyk in 2017.