Sam Peter....overrated puncher?

Yes, he was no doubt a fan of Sam Peter at that time.

So was Teddy Atlas, in 2005 he compared Peter to Joe Frazier.

 

He had power but was sloppy. He put guys away by clubbing them all over their head, rarely finding the chin. His left hook when delivered with stealth was his most dependable for producing single punch knockouts, but he often just went wild, banging guys on the side of their head until they were helpless.

He was very erratic, he could box well in spurts but at the drop of a dime, would go into sloppy clubber mode. The Toney rematch is probably his best performance from a techincal standpoint, he looked like a motivated Ray Mercer in that one.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_AvEvjhkI[/url]

 

Eddie chambers said Peter is undoubtly the second hardest puncher he's ever fought after Wlad. I asked him myself

 

Lol

 

He had serious power, but the two rabbit punch knockdowns don't count. So you are wrong, he only scored one knockdown in their fight

 

In terms of Peter having power, he did, as he should have, being a seventeen and a half stone athlete. Was it exceptional? Possibly. Could he translate that into explosive punching? No, not in general.

While he could get away with wild, clubbing-style punches, he looked a very powerful puncher. But, as he needed to get a little bit more refined, the power of his punches seemed to be less; he just didn't look comfortable trying to shift his weight behind a straight punch.

I think it was the Jeremy Williams fight, in which Peter threw a left, where his fist, I'm guessing, travelled about 270 degrees around him, passing through several states, en route to Williams' chin and beyond, before coming to stop. With 240lbs-plus behind it, it's going to look powerful. And, for poor Williams, it really was.

 

James Toney and Marion Wilson both said Peter was the hardest puncher it their careers.

By the way, Wilson fought Ibeabuchi, Briggs, Rahman, McCall, Golota, Mercer, Maskaev and many other heavy handed HWs.

Past prime Peter KO'd Nagy Aguilera easily, whike hard hitters like Washingthon and Breseale couldn't even drop him. So Peter's power is serious.

But Peter has poor skills so he rarely finds opponents chin, more often he lands to the back of the head:yep

 

Peter was a big, incredibly strong and durable fighter. Very good punching power.

 

Heavy hitter for sure...he could also absorb a lot of shots...cement head!!!

 

Hard hitter, but not very fast hands.

 

Actually, Peter had better technique than Frazier, a sturdier chin and more power too, being way bigger than the little cruiserweight Frazier was.

And also, contrarily to Frazier, Peter had two functional eyes :deal

 

Thats untrue. Chambers told the pOSTER Kissan on this site that Povetkin hit harder than Peters.