By Lem Satterfield, FanHouse
Serbian-born, WBO cruiser weight (200 pounds) champion Marco "Captain" Huck of Germany earned his 11th straight win, and his ninth knockout during that span as well as his fourth straight stoppage victory with Saturday night's fifth round knockout of Rhode Island's Matt Godfrey in the fourth defense of his title before his hometown fans in Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany.
The 25-year-old Huck (30-1, 23 knockouts) has not lost since December of 2007, when promotional stablemate and present IBF king, Steve Cunningham (23-2, 12 KOs), stopped him in the 12th round.
Huck was coming off of May's ninth-round knockout of American Brian Minto, whom he floored in the previous round under a barrage of blows and dropped in the third, and, the fifth rounds, as well.
Huck floored the 29-year-old Godfrey (20-2, 10 KOs), of Providence, once each in the second and third rounds, and twice in the fifth and final round before referee Genaro Rodriguez ended it.
Godfrey had won four straight since suffering his lone defeat by 12-round, unanimous decision at the hands of Rudolf Kraj (14-1, 10 KOs) in March of 2008.
In his next bout, in Aug. of 2008, Godfrey got off the canvas in the third round of an eventual fourth-round knockout of Emmanuel Nwodo, and he was coming off of September's 10-round split-decision victory over Michael Simms.
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
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