Top 5 reasons Sam Peter beats Oleg Maskaev

Michael Grant and Calvin Brock are hardly shining examples of iron chins. I will say, however, that the Byrd and Briggs knockdowns were impressive, but McCline has only show that kind of power twice. I doubt he can show it now he's hit middle-age.

 

I think the fact that Maskaev has not fought for about 9 years is a huge factor in this fight, particularly at his age. He is chinny as well, and Peter has to be the favourite here.

Maskaev is however a banger himself and is significantly more skilled then Peter, so its difficult to pick a winner here.

 

I cannot see how old, inactive, injured, weak-chinned Maskaev is going to win this fight. Two years ago, he might have had a very good shot. But now? I don't see it happening.

 

True, although those fights showed us that Peter is a legitimate 12-round fighter and can follow a good offensive strategy (in the first fight, swarm and crowd; in the second fight, jab and flurry) if he's given it. One of Peter's problems is that he does not have a good strategist like Emmanuel Stewart or Enzo Calzaghe in his corner.

 

The bottom line is that McCline does have big power early on, and the fact that he has knocked down several top heavyweights early proves this. You get a 6-6, 270 pound man putting everything into his shots with good technique and snap and it's gonna hurt. And if you don't see it coming...

With that said, Maskaev carries his power late into fights, which makes him more consistently dangerous than McCline. If he can make it through the early/mid rounds, he stands a good chance of outworking/outmanuvering Peter down the stretch.

I agree with you about the defense part: Peter's defense needs a lot of work. He can't block too many punches with his head unless he wants his to say goodbye to his career by 30.

 

sure... when the other guy is barely capable of keeping his own balance and spends 90% of time against the ropes.

 

Mccline style is hardly aggressive though, if you watch his fight against Wlad, he pretty much layed back and let Wlad take control, afraid to engage. Mccline is a big man at 265-270, 6'6, of course the guy has power when he decides to step into his punches, like he did against guys like Peter, Bryd, Brock, and Briggs, all it takes is one punch for him to put a man with a above average to good chin to the canvas, it's stamina that holds him back from finishing his oppenents off when he has the chance.

 

I am the opposite. I think Maskaev is far superior boxer to Peter and if goes the distance, it favors Oleg.

Peter needs to win by knockout, but he has never knocked out a live body.

So this is a really interesting fight, but ring rust prevails and Peter TKO"s him late probably....

 

Not at all, considering that Peter has Don King on his side....

 

Sooo true. And I'll bet Oleg knows this, which puts more pressure on him to get a ko.

 

If he's hardly aggressive, then that proves my point about Peter having only his beard and puppy-fat for defence.

 

Peter will massacre Oleg...mark my words!

 

His problem is that he has nothing that he does for defence except throwing punches. He holds his gloves low, often leaves his chin hanging out, doesn't move his head, he can't slip punches, he has no height advantage and his shoulders are overmuscled so they can't roll properly. Add that to his inability to throw an uppercut, double up his punches or move his feet properly, and you have to wonder what he actually does in training.

 

9 years?????