Nigerian Samuel Peter is world heavyweight Boxing champion
The WBC had crowned Peter in interim capacity after Maskaev, the former champion, failed to defend the title.
Doom’s day came on sunday night in Cancun, Mexico, when Peter, a policeman, in the presence of his promoter, Don King and thousands of boxing fans, stopped the Russian in the sixth of the 12-round fight that was watched live in Nigeria, courtesy of the Akwa Ibom State Government.
Signs of Peter’s imminent victory started emerging in the fourth round when he moved ahead of Maskaev by about three points.
Although the former champion was cautious from the beginning, he, however, ran into a barrage of punches from Peter, who is fondly called the “Nigerian Nightmare”, two rounds later and that spelt the end of the road for him.
After he was declared winner of the bout, Peter affirmed that he was better than the others in the heavyweight division, saying: “I’m the best heavyweight in the world. I’m undisputed…I can beat anyone. All of them are going down.”
With this victory, Peter has improved his record to 30 wins (23 knockouts) with one defeat by International Boxing Federation (IBF) Champion, Wladimir Klitschko. Already, he is eyeing a rematch with Klitschko to avenge his loss.
“I’m going to get him … I’m going to beat his brother (Vitali). I’m going to tell him that I’m coming. I’ve got two belts. He doesn’t need the IBF. He needs this one. He’s going to come for this, and he’ll get stopped,” Peter added.
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March 10th, 2008 at 5:05 am
I congratulate sam peter and the whole nigeria for his new global no 1 champion , i advised the nigeria to put more concesration on kick boxing
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
i ubong uko, i hope that this man called samul peter subpost to be reconnight in this contery very well. and to be builled a rine in his own sate.