[Thomas Hearns]

Marco Huck was the great favourite of this group and he performed at the level of their background, he beat his better three rivals (Thompson, McCline and Jones) and only fought to a draw against the surprising Sam Sexton.
Huck seemed to be one of the biggest contenders for the Klitschko's brothers on this tournament.

At 43 Jameel McCline looked a bit washed up on his first fight against Sam Sexton but then he recovered winning four consecutive fights to finally being defeat by Marco Huck on the last fight (but only after gave the german some trouble on the first two rounds). His fast starts of fight seemed to be very effective.

The great surprise of the group was Sam Sexton, an average english fighter that beat mccline and tied with Huck on his first too fights. Then he lost a pair of fights but finally he recovered with back to back wins to pass to the second round of the tournament. Nobody expected that this englishman could do it.

Ondrej Pala was near of the great hit. He won his first three fights but then he came short agianst Huck,McCline and specially on the defining fight against Sexton.


One of the deceptions of the group was WBA cruiserweight champion Guillermo Jones, that started the tournament with two consecutive losses (Pala and Mccline) then he recovered a bit but lost all his chances losing a thrilling fight against Marco HucK. Yet eliminated he won a good fight against Tony Thompson.

The greatest deception was Tony Thompson that was expected to be Huck worse rival and finally he only won two fights of six to finish on a dark sixth position on the standings.

Limited argentine Lisandro Diaz lost all his six bouts as it was expected but he did some good partial outings against Pala, Jones and Sexton.