PETER : "I will BEcome the FIRST fighter to END an ENTIRE FAMILY's boxing CAREER."

SO WHAT IF HBO REPORTED IT!

If its not an issue before the fight, then dont use it as an excuse after the fight if things dont go well. Thats all im saying.

I apply that thought to ALL boxers

 

That is what I was thinking, too. Sam Peter's managers seem to be the only ones saying he had a ruptured ear drum and not one, but TWO broken hands, I think it was.

Peter's ear drum was not ruptured, McCline's mediocre shots were what dropped Peter, three times............plain and simple. Let's accept that and move on.

If Peter's era drum was really ruptured, they'd had had it confirmed, and reported to the boxing press right after the fight, cause they know the damage that bouncing off the canvas did to Peter's aura in the divsion. If he really had a ruptured ear drum, they would have been telling it far and wide with doctors' specific names to substantiate it.

Same as Tyson did to substantiate why he could not stand against Williams when he tore his knee.........:good

Peter had no ear drum injury. McCline's shots KDed Peter, plain and simple.

 

Exactly what I said. Had Peter not gone down 3 times we would have never heard about an ear or broken hand (or 2) . Peter's aura was damaged badly.

it was nothing but damage control from King and Duva. 2 of the worst guys in boxing

 

What up Suge?

So if he has heart not to cancel, have the heart not to make excuses for the performance.

I just got a thought..... Do you think that maybe, just maybe McCline hit Peter in the face and he went down on 3 different occasions because of those punches?

Call me crazy, but Is that possible?

 

You watch the first KD,,, was not even a hard punch,,,, was is balance from the eardrum,,,, the second kd was a monster shot that Peter got right back up from,, have you ever had a ear drum damaged.... You can hardly walk a straight line,,, now watch the huge punch the much harder maskaev lands cleanly on peter at the end of the 5th round I believe,,, Peter walks right thru it and that punch was 100 times harder than the shot that put peter down in the McCline fight

 

It isn't uncommon for management to fabricate injury to keep a fighters stock from dropping.

Before the Ibragimov - Briggs fight, it was stated that Briggs had chronic asthma and had to postpone the fight. The fight had to be postponed for a different reason, and the Iggy camp knew it. Truth is that Briggs got knocked unconscious by a sparring partner. The New York State athletic boxing comission states that if a fighter gets knocked unconscious, he cannot fight for a grace period of 60 days for safety precaution.

The only reason why I know this, is because the guy who knocked him out during sparring is a friend of mine.

Truth is, as i was told by this same fighter, this happens all the time in boxing. We just don't hear about it.

I was told by this same person that Vitali was dropped during a sparring session, but it was not from a punch. He tore his meniscus and lost balance.

This same source also stated that Lamon Brewster is by far the hardest puncher in the division. He said that his punches hurt 2 weeks after sparring. I know this last tidbit of info has nothing to do with this thread, but it's just fyi.

 

I heard that also about Briggs. Info is made up all the time in ALL sports. Look how many times they say 1 thing but its something else in foot, basketball, and baseball.

 

All depends where the punch lands. Peter went down 3 times against McCline. Say whatever you want, give whatever excuse you want to give, they were legit KD's. :bbb :bbb :bbb :bbb

 

I wonder when Duva and King devised the ear drum story; after the fight was over, and Peter barely excaped with a win ( a win some think he didn't deserve) or did they come up with this story, during the fight, when he was being bounced off the canvas like a rubber ball.

As Peter is struggling to get to his feet for the third time, I can see Duva turning and shouting to the crowd from ringside, to anyone who will listen.......He has a RUPTURED EAR DRUM, you know! He really does have an iron chin and he's MUCH better than McCline ever thought about being.......REALLY, he is!

LOL

 

HBO reported after the fight that Samuel did have his injured ear drum ruptured AGAIN.

Here are comments from one of their chief sports writers:

"Sam had a perforated ear drum before the fight and it had not yet healed when he stepped into the ring," said his manager, Ivaylo Gotzev. "His equilibrium was off, and he was off balance a lot as a result."

Nice excuse, but does it hold water? In repeated viewing of the three knockdowns on YouTube, it appears there is more than a little validity to what Gotzev says.

Just 15 seconds into the first round, Peter threw a right cross that McCline ducked under. The shot glanced off McCline's right shoulder, and in the process Peter clearly lost his balance. Peter was standing awkwardly on one foot when the 6'6" McCline came up from his crouch and his left shoulder bumped Peter further off balance. McCline then delivered a powerful uppercut that hit all chin and sent Peter sprawling to the canvas. It was a blow from the 266-pound McCline that Gotzev says probably would have knocked any heavyweight down.

As for the second knockdown, which came in the next round, Peter's ear drum had nothing to do with it. McCline threw a vicious right hook that caught Peter flush on the right side of his gut and staggered him. Peter immediately tried to clinch and hang on, but McCline broke free and fired a left-right combo that sent him to his knees.

The final knockout, in the same round, was also not necessarily an ear drum problem, but balance did play a factor. Trying to regroup after the second knock down, Peter was backing up after throwing a punch, and his feet were not planted when McCline lunged with his long right arm and put him down.

Peter got up, stayed on his feet until the bell sounded, and did not go down again in the fight. More significantly, he looked anything like a fighter struggling to survive. As he had done in the second James Toney fight, Peter began to box and move very well, repeatedly landing combos and blows to the body en route to a unanimous decision.

A closer look at the Klitschko fight further validates Gotzev's claim that the knockdowns were something of a fluke. At one point in the fight, Klitschko, who had 40 of his 44 victories at the time by way of knockout, landed four hard shots to Peter's head within a space of six seconds and Peter not only didn't stagger, appeared unfazed by the blows."




So... he already had a ruptured eardrum that was re-ruptured during the fight. I think we all agree that Wlad hits harder than McLine so...

:yep :hi:

 

Brewster got his ass handed to him and was about to get knocked out in the Wlad rematch when -all of a sudden- the detached retina b.s. story surfaced.
Brew was smart, he didn't push it, otherwise he gets pounded by Wlad again 3rd fight -and he knew he couldn't win.
McCline hurt Pete bad, fair and square.
Vitali will find that kisser too, then we all will have something to talk about, or for some of you, be quite about.

 

You'll be the one that is gonna be quiet about it and giving the excuses as why Peter won

 

What I find most disturbing about Peter is two points:

1. Regardless of the McCline fight and eardrum troubles, Maskaev wobbled Peter.

2. Peter, who everyone proclaims is a fighter with amazing raw power, hasn't knocked out anyone not named Oleg. I just can't give a lot of credit to someone that supposedly has vicious knockout power when it is only evidence by a highlight reel knockout of a china chinned cruiserweight.