Former heavyweight titleholder Samuel Peter has signed a deal with Top Rank and will fight this weekend in Mexico. (via www.sportgate.de)

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Former heavyweight titlist Samuel Peter (30-3, 23 KO) has signed a deal with Top Rank and will fight on this weekend's Latin Fury 10 card in Mexico. Peter will take on Marcus McGee (22-16, 11 KO), who has been knocked out five times in the past. McGee has lost two in a row and will in theory serve as nothing more than a rebound opponent for Peter to get his career back on track.

The 28-year old Peter has lost two in a row, quitting last year against Vitali Klitschko and getting outboxed by Eddie Chambers in March. Peter has enough sock that if he dedicates himself to training and all that, he's still a wild card in the division, but his days as a top five heavyweight are probably over. There was a time when the boxing world thought he would've been the best challenge for the dominant Wladimir Klitschko, whom he knocked down three times in a 2005 fight, but I think after his last two bouts we can all guess what would've really happened in a rematch.

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