Top 5 reasons Sam Peter beats Oleg Maskaev

I agree Sammy will win, but I'm leaning towards a TKO.

 

I agree, if Peter can't win this one he is an even worse bum than we all already know he is. Maskaev is there for the taking, almost any contender could beat Oleg right now.

btw Oleg's china chin should definitely be in the top 5, certainly a better reason than "styles make fights" because you can barely describe Peters ring actions as a "style".

 

Two words: Ring Rust.
That, and because he has to ko Peter. King won't allow a decision to derail Peter's future earning potential. This will be Maskaev's farewell performance.

 

I'm a huge Peter fan, but Maskaev should not be overlooked, he still has a ton of power and hasnt lost a fight in years, I believe he has won 11 or 12 straight. Peter should win this fight, but in Boxing, we all know weird **** can happen. I got it 70/30 for Peter, and I am perdicting a early knockout for Peter, who looks to be great shape and ready for the challenge at hand.

 

Maskaev has not had a KO in 3 years?

I guess you forgot Maskaev vs. Rahman II in 2006.... bad math or bad memory? or both?

 

Up until the McCline fight, I would have favoured Peter by a mile. I've cut that down to half a mile, now that Peter has been shown to have questionable whiskers (being bounced off the canvas and nearly knocked out by a light hitter is not a good sign) and due to the fact that Peter has almost no defence at all.

Still, Maskaev is old, inactive, chinny and looked horrible in his last fight. It would take a miracle for him to win. A lot depends on their respective conditioning on the night; I don't trust Peter not to come in with a pot-belly and get his head turned into a water-balloon.

 

McCline is a hard hitter early in fights.

 

Ahem. Maskaev beat Rahman by knockout. Top reason your system is flawed.

He also beat livin Castillo by knockout, and it was less than 3 years ago.

Care to try again?

 

Exactly, he put down then IBF champ Chris Bryd with one punch, Brock, Briggs, Peter, and Grant. He is far from light hitter early in fights, it's only later when he fatigues, does his power start to deplete.

 

I think everyone is overlooking the Vegas Strip Club and buffet factors.

ive got maskaev on a close pts victory. i expect a split decision by the judges however.

 

Correction: he's a harder hitter early in fights, because after 4 or 5 rounds he's spent, like most boxers of his build.

If he is a big hitter early in fights, then he must not land much early in fights, considering that only 23 of his fights have ended by stoppage. That brings us back to the inescapable conclusion: Peter has no defence worth talking about except falling on his ass.

Now, if we can all agree that Maskaev is a much harder hitter in any round than McCline, then a lot will depend on (a) whether Maskaev has enough left to get off big punches and not get KO'd himself, and (b) whether Peter has bothered to learn how to block and slip punches. If it is (b), then the heavyweight division better watch out.

 

If this goes to the scorecards, it's 100% in favor of Peter. Maskaev can win only by KO. Gotta land that uppercut and send Peter back to Nigeria....

 

Peter was also bleeding against the light-hitting Toney and the fat middleweight had him stunned on a least one occasion.