What's next for Samuel Peter after win in Youngstown?
by Bad Left Hook on Dec 23, 2009 2:27 AM EST
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Samuel Peter beat Gabe Brown on the Pavlik-Espino undercard (off TV) in Youngstown this past weekend. So what's next for the former heavyweight titlist, whose career has been crawling under the guidance of Top Rank? Jim Amato wonders just that.
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Sam Peter is the former WBC heavyweight champion. He is hoping to regain a piece of the heavyweight title. He battered Gabe "Big G" Brown on the Pavlik-Espino undercard. He came in at 240 pounds. That was 23 pounds less then what he weighed when he lost to Eddie Chambers. Is Sam Peter back in the mix?
Samuel Peter turned pro in 2001 and went undefeated until a decision loss to Wladimir Klitschko in 2005. In 2006 Peter won a close decision over James Toney. In their 2007 rematch Peter handled Toney much easier and won a unanimous decision. Then came a life and death struggle at Madison Square Garden against Jameel McCline. "Big Time" had Sam down and nearly out early but faded down the stretch and Peter rallied to win the verdict and the interim WBC belt.
In 2008, Peter halted Oleg Maskaev in six to win the WBC title outright. This led to a showdown with Vitali Klitschko. In his worst career performance Sam Peter was dominated and stopped by Vitali. Then earlier this year, weighing in at a portly 263 Peter was too slow to catch "Fast" Eddie Chambers and dropped a decision.
Peter weighed 240 pounds and looked great the other night. His opponent, Gabe Brown, is in the vicinity of 6'6" and weighed in at an astonishing 363 pounds. He has ties to Roy Jones Jr. and sported an 18-12-4 record coming in. He had been in with the likes of Bruce Seldon, Dominick Guinn, Lance Whitaker and Clifford Etienne.
So what's next for Samuel Peter?
Personally, I would LOVE to see Sam Peter fight Chris Arreola. What a war that could be. How about Peter versus David Tua? How about the winner of January's Evander Holyfield-Francois Botha fight? Oliver McCall is still looking for a big fight. I just want to see Sam Peter in shape and active. He's been a major player in the division for the last five years.
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To me, it seems like he's taking the Sahnnon Briggs path back to title contention
Which is fine by me. Peter seemed to make some big strides after the Klitschko fight, but then seemed to become too overcautious around the time of the McCline fight. If having him fight lesser fighters helps him build his confidence back and gets some buzz behind him, then good for him. He ain’t beating a Klitschko anyway, so might as well let him hang under the radar for a while.
It is nice to see that he’s taking the game seriously again. But I think it’s a little soon to have him stepping in there with a top 10 guy again. There’s a reason Top Rank pulled him back from an interim title fight with Alex Povetkin. He still needs to learn how to put his old aggressiveness together with his newer boxing skills. Once he does that, he could become a lot of fun to watch and could be a force to be reckoned with.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
If Sam Peter fights Chris Arreola. That would be a real fight for and test for Arreola.
If you always thought what you thought, then you wouldn't think what you knew.
Agreed. Fighting a 363 pound Gabe Brown proves nothing!
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Dec 23, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions
As I noted in a fanshot (didn't bother to put it on the front page)
Arreola’s next fight might be against Tomasz Adamek. We’ll see if anything comes of it, but the offer’s on the table.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Peter is ass backwards with his agenda....
This fool (Peter) jacks around in training for his big fights against the real contenders of the heavyweight division, and then trains hard to walk-over bums, stiffs and tomato cans in a comeback effort…….. WTF? No way Sam Peter can maintain 240 pounds for very long……… That weight has got to be hard to make……….. I sense and smell a lot if Jive and Bullspit comin’ from team Peter……… Peace…
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