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Former IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham was still a bit stunned and bewildered by how he lost his title this past weekend in Germany to Yoan Pablo Hernandez via sixth-round technical decision. After getting floored hard by the Cuban expatriate in the first, Cunningham began taking control of the fight in the subsequent rounds as he steadied himself and looked to be in the process of breaking Hernandez down with his body attack.

But this contest was stopped at the end of the sixth round due to a cut Hernandez’s scalp, caused by a clash of noggins between the two earlier in the fight. The scorecards at the time read 58-55 and 59-54 for Hernandez and 57-56, Cunningham, meaning a new champion had been crowned.

When asked to reflect on what had been through, Cunningham, still in Germany on Monday, told Maxboxing, “In a few words- a big robbery. They robbed me. To tell you the truth, from the first time of us getting into Germany, this time, we just felt a little...we knew what it was to an extent. We knew that signing with a German promoter, this could happen. We knew that us having a belt, that’s what they were interested in- but we also knew that I’m the best cruiserweight in the world. There is a market for me in Germany and that they do great promotions over there. Another thing is I knew I was also fighting Marco Huck’s trainer, Ulli Wegner. I was fighting another one of his guys.”

Cunningham stopped Huck back in 2007 in the 12th round in his first go-round as the IBF titlist.

“I knew that there was beef from me beating Huck so bad,” explained Cunningham, “that every time we would meet him over the years, he just had this look on his face. And he’s got a lot of pull over there, so we knew that there was a high potential for issues.”

Despite signing with Sauerland Event Promotions, Cunningham finds himself in the position of always being the road team or the B-side. He signed with them because, quite frankly, there is no interest in this division in America. When he defended his title against Tomasz Adamek in Newark, New Jersey (which isn’t too far from his home in Philadelphia), it was much more like “Lil Warsaw” than the “City of Brotherly Love” in the Prudential Center in December of 2008 when they engaged in a back-and-forth slugfest. Add to the fact that Philly is now just a boxing city in history and reputation more than anything else, Cunningham really had no choice but to sign with Sauerland Event.

Cunningham had to go where the cruiserweights are to make ends meet.

He laments, “The cruiserweight market in the United States is basically no TV which means no money. The amount of money that we are faced with in America pales in comparison from what we receive from Germany and from Polish promoters. We got contracts from different promoters in Europe, not just Sauerland. It only made sense to sign with them.”

In Hernandez, Cunningham faced a challenger whose whole career has been fought in Germany and was also the under same promotional banner. It wouldn’t be a stretch to speculate that Sauerland Events would benefit more from a Hernandez victory but Cunningham believes that it isn’t Wilfried or Kalle Sauerland who was pulling strings but Wegner and matchmaker Hagen Doering. “Those guys, they really don’t like us and they basically got a fear thing going on inside Sauerland with some of the employees,” explained Cunningham. “Everybody listens to them and they basically run the show with Ulli Wegner being such an accomplished and polished trainer and such a person over there of stature. He runs a lot of things, so from what we saw even during and after the fight, it was basically Wegner and Hagen, those guys who did this dirt.”

So a trainer can have this much influence? It seems a tad farfetched but Cunningham insisted this to be true, believing that this vendetta ran deep.

“When we would go over to Europe, come to Germany and we’d be at a fight with Huck or even at one of Huck’s fights, none of the employees would come over and sit and talk with us and y’ know...clown around if Wegner was around,” he stated. “Because they didn’t want him to see them being friends with us. It’s ridiculous.”

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