Samuel Peter

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Samuel Peter
Heavyweight boxing world champion
boxer
Sam Peter (left), 2007 versus Jameel McCline

Sam Peter (left), 2007 versus Jameel McCline

Data
Birth Name Samuel Okon Peter
Fight name The Nigerian Nightmare
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality NigeriaNigeria Nigerian
birthday September 6, 1980
place of birth Akwa Ibom
style Left delivery
size 1.88 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 42
Victories 36
Knockout victories 29
Defeats 6th
Profile in the BoxRec database

Samuel Okon Peter (born September 6, 1980 in Akwa Ibom , Nigeria ), often abbreviated to Sam Peter , is a Nigerian heavyweight boxer and former WBC world champion.

amateur

Peter had a brief amateur career with 18 wins and two losses; among other things, he defeated Muchtarchan Dildabekow . In 2000 he won in Cairo the African qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Sydney . There he beat the Romanian Konstantin Onofrei, but then lost in the quarterfinals to Paolo Vidoz on points.

Professional career

Samuel Peter turned pro in the USA in 2001 , lives and trains in Las Vegas . His manager is the Bulgarian Iwailo Gotsew, he was promoted by Duva Boxing and Don King .

Peter is slow to move, very slow and technically very limited. Because of this, he couldn't put some opponents right and had to go the full distance with Jovo Pudar and Charles Shufford, for example , although he also won these fights safely. Jeremy Williams was hard knocked out, and Yanqui Díaz ( Juan Carlos Gómez's only conqueror until his fight against Vitali Klitschko ) he was able to defeat prematurely. Further technical deficiencies in boxing were revealed against higher-class opponents, for example he is occasionally prone to illegal neck blows.

On September 24, 2005 he was defeated by Wladimir Klitschko in a World Cup elimination match between the WBO and IBF associations . Klitschko had to hit the ground several times in this fight: two knockdowns in the fifth round, which were initiated by irregular blows to the neck, and a third knockdown in the tenth round. Despite this defeat, Peter continued to be seen as one of the few hopefuls in the heavyweight division, he remained in the top 10 in " Ring Magazine ". After a points win over Robert Hawkins and first round knockout against Julius Long (balance 14-7) Peter went on September 2, 2006 in an elimination match of the WBC Association against James Toney . Toney was 38 years old at the time and was well past his zenith. He won a controversial 2-1 judge's verdict. Due to the controversial ruling, the WBC ordered a direct rematch between Peter and Toney. Samuel Peter won this again on January 6, 2007, this time clearly and unanimously. He had Toney down in the second round and got good reviews. With this victory he acquired the right to box for the WBC World Championship.

Peter should now box against the WBC title holder Oleg Maskayev . However, since the ex-world champion Vitali Klitschko , who had resigned due to injury in 2005, had announced his return and wanted to assert his right to an immediate title fight, the fight could not take place at first. After lengthy negotiations it was finally agreed that Maskayev should first play against Peter and that the winner of this fight should then defend the title against Klitschko. The fight against Maskayev was scheduled for October 6, 2007 in New York's Madison Square Garden . The Russian had to cancel the fight because of a herniated disc during preparation , whereupon Peter was declared an interim title holder by the WBC. If Maskayev had not been able to defend his title against Peter within a year, he would have been stripped of his title and Peter would have become WBC world champion without a fight. On October 6, Peter boxed for the interim title against Jameel McCline . Surprisingly, he had to accept heavy impact hits at the beginning of the fight and went down once in the second round and twice in the third round; However, he was able to recover and more or less dominate the fight in the following years. However, he could not live up to his role as the clear favorite. In the end, he was awarded a narrow point win.

On March 8, 2008, the duel with the 39-year-old WBC world champion Oleg Maskajew, who had long since passed his prime, finally took place in Cancun, Mexico . After a quiet start, Peter landed several heavy impact hits shortly before the end of the sixth lap. The fight was stopped because Maskayev seemed unable to fight, but without going down. This success made Peter WBC heavyweight world champion. According to the contract, he then had to play against the Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko on October 11, 2008 in Berlin . After a one-sided course of the fight, in which Peter lost every round, he gave up the fight after the eighth round and thus lost the WBC title in his first title defense. He played his first fight after losing the title in March 2009 against the American Eddie Chambers . Peter, who started this duel with the highest weight of his professional career (more than 120 kg), lost the fight over twelve rounds on points and suffered his second defeat in a row.

He then fought his way back up in the IBF rankings with four wins; Among other things, he won an elimination match of the IBF Association against Nagy Aguilera, who had previously defeated Oleg Maskayev. After the compulsory defense of IBF / WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko against Alexander Powetkin on September 11, 2010 in the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt due to non-compliance with deadlines on the part of the Russian professional boxer, Samuel Peter received the IBF boxer placed second -World ranking against Klitschko more than five years after their first encounter the chance for a rematch. But he also lost this fight; after many heavy hits in the course of the fight, Peter went down in the tenth round, whereupon the fight was stopped by the referee. Peter lost the next fight on April 2, 2011 against the undefeated aspiring Finn Robert Helenius by knockout in the ninth round.

Afterwards, Peter did not start again until September 27, 2014. He won against the American Ron Aubrey by a technical knockout in the second round.

List of professional fights

35 wins (28 knockout wins), 5 losses (three knockout losses), 0 draws
year Day place opponent Result for Peter
2001 February 6th KazakhstanKazakhstanSports Palace, Almaty , Kazakhstan BulgariaBulgaria Georgi Hristov Victory / KO 1st round
10th of May United StatesUnited StatesBiltmore Resort, Phoenix, Arizona, USA United StatesUnited States James Lester Victory / TKO 3rd round
25. May ChileChileEstadio Carlos Dittborn, Arica , Chile United StatesUnited States George Chamberlain Victory / TKO 1st round
July 28th United StatesUnited States Exhibition Hall, Fort Myers, Florida, USA United StatesUnited States Shannon Head Victory / TKO 1st round
August 25 United StatesUnited States Flamingo Hilton, Laughlin, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Freddy Gatica Victory / TKO 1st round
September 28th United StatesUnited States Caesars Palace , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Giles Knox Victory / TKO 1st round
November 10th United StatesUnited States Fernwood Resort, Bushkill, Pennsylvania, USA United StatesUnited States Curtis Taylor Victory / KO 1st round
2002 3 March United StatesUnited StatesCatholic Youth Center, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA United StatesUnited States Marion Wilson Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
March 22 United StatesUnited States Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, Arizona, USA United StatesUnited States Julius Joiner Victory / TKO 1st round
May 24th United StatesUnited States Brady Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA United StatesUnited States Terry Porter Victory / KO 2nd round
June 7th United StatesUnited States Rawhide Arena, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA United StatesUnited States Francis Royal Victory / TKO 2nd round
July 27th United StatesUnited States Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Cornelius Ellis Victory / TKO 2nd round
2003 7th March United StatesUnited States City Center Pavilion, Reno, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Dale Crowe Victory / TKO 4th round
June 21st United StatesUnited States Staples Center , Los Angeles, California, USA United StatesUnited States Lyle McDowell Victory / TKO 4th round
August 30th United StatesUnited States Sam's Town Casino, Tunica, Mississippi, USA BrazilBrazil Daniel Frank Victory / KO 2nd round
September 26th United StatesUnited States HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York, USA United StatesUnited States Jason Farley Victory / TKO 2nd round
2004 22nd of January United StatesUnited States Glendale Arena, Phoenix, Arizona, USA United StatesUnited States Chris Isaac Victory / TKO 7th round
6th March United StatesUnited States Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA BrazilBrazil Jose Arimatea Da Silva Victory / TKO 2nd round
17th of May United StatesUnited States Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Charles Shufford Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
5th of August United StatesUnited States Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, USA Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Jovo Pudar Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
December 4th United StatesUnited States Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Jeremy Williams Victory / KO 2nd round
2005 22nd of January United StatesUnited States American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida, USA CubaCuba Yanqui Diaz Victory / TKO 5th round
April 29 United StatesUnited States Union Plaza Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA MexicoMexico Gilbert Martinez Victory / TKO 3rd round
2nd July United StatesUnited States Events Center, Reno, Nevada, USA United StatesUnited States Taurus Sykes Victory / KO 2nd round
September 24th United StatesUnited States Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA UkraineUkraine Wladimir Klitschko Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
15th December United StatesUnited States Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, USA United StatesUnited States Robert Hawkins Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2006 April 28 United StatesUnited States Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Connecticut, USA United StatesUnited States Julius Long Victory / KO 1st round
September 2nd United StatesUnited States Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA United StatesUnited States James Toney Points win (split decision) / 12 rounds
2007 6th January United StatesUnited States Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, USA United StatesUnited States James Toney Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
October 6th United StatesUnited States Madison Square Garden , New York, New York, USA United StatesUnited States Jameel McCline
interim WBC World Championship
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2008 8th of March MexicoMexico Plaza de Toros, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico RussiaRussia Oleg Maskayev
WBC title defense
Victory / TKO 6th round
October 11th GermanyGermany O2 World Berlin , Germany UkraineUkraine Vitali Klitschko
WBC title defense
Loss / abandonment 8th round
2009 27th of March United StatesUnited States Nokia Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA United StatesUnited States Eddie Chambers Point loss (majority decision) / 10 rounds
July 25th MexicoMexicoGrand Mayan, Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit , Mexico United StatesUnited States Marcus McGee Victory / KO 3rd round
September 15th MexicoMexicoPlaza de Toros, Cancun , Quintana Roo , Mexico United StatesUnited States Ronald Bellamy Victory / TKO 2nd round
19. December United StatesUnited States Beeghly Center, Youngstown, Ohio, USA United StatesUnited States Gabe Brown Victory / TKO 4th round
2010 March 12th United StatesUnited States Gaylord Hotel, Grapevine, Texas, USA Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Nagy Aguilera Victory / TKO 2nd round
September 11 GermanyGermany Commerzbank-Arena , Frankfurt am Main , Germany UkraineUkraine Wladimir Klitschko
IBF / WBO World Championship
Loss / TKO 10th round
2011 2nd of April GermanyGermany Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle , Germany FinlandFinland Robert Helenius Loss / KO 9th round
2014 September 27th GermanyGermanyOKC Downtown Airpark, Oklahoma City , USA United StatesUnited States Ron Aubrey Victory / TKO 2nd round
(Source: BoxRec database )

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography

Web links

predecessor Office successor
Oleg Maskayev Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC )
March 8, 2008 - October 11, 2008
Vitali Klitschko