Sam Peters a fraud and I bought into it!

I don't think the Peter hype was all that huge. It's just that the division is so bad, that it's natural to seek out fighters who might become elite.

Peter is limited, and obviously doesn't have the iron chin that a lot of people thought, but he's still a threat in the division. In fact, outside of Wlad, he might still be the best guy at heavyweight.

 

Calling Sam Peter a "fraud" is completely ridiculous. He is what he is and what you see is what you get. He never performs at a 100%, but that makes him a bum not a fraud.

 

Peter is what he is - he's a limited fighter with a lot of flaws, but provides for exciting fights. I will say that his power is overrated. He is strong and heavy handed, but he isn't a great puncher or a true KO artist.

He's not as good as some on here, including myself, were lead to believe, but he's not a "bum." You don't get off the canvas 3 times to keep your composure and win, take a beating from Klitschko and not go down, and beat James Toney twice (even if he was a fat, blown up fighter) by being a bum.

Calling a ranked professional fighter a "bum" is disrespectful to say the least.

 

Styles and circumstances make fights. Peter DID win, not in expected fashion, but aren't guys allowed to have an off-night? He clearly lost to Wlad, but k'd him down 3 or 4 times, didn't he? He still has the potential to beat anyone at HW.

 

Ruslan, if he can come back, is the man Wlad needs to beat. Forget about Peter.

 

A lot of very fickle posters here tonight, i guess you are very easily swayed by a bad night for a good heavyweight. Tua... He showed flaws in numerous fights.. Lewis was not rocked in fights , he was stopped, so was Tyson .. so was Wlad.. so was Holmes.. so was Mercer... The point you all miss is that Samuel won and got the bad parts of his fight behind him... I Hope Sameul comes and proves you weak constituted so called nay sayers wrong..

No one twisted anyones arm .. you were buying into a man developing and now you are buying into the thinking that he has a glass jaw.

How sad ..

 

I agree with you and I have never been a Sam Peter fan.

 

Sam Peter will take his rightfull place as nothing more than a gatekeeper within a couple years.

 

This might put to rest the perception that Peter is the next big HW champion. Time to look for someone else for those who thought he is the next big thing in HW.

 

I agree, at that point in Wlads's carreer he was coming off those 2 brutal loses and another lose against Peter he would have had to consider retiring. So he was very cautious and if they should ever fight again I think Wlad might stop him.