It says that he is still a young heavyweight who held his own, but clearly lost against the best heavyweight in the world. There is no shame in losing to Wladimir and give Peter credit: he lasted the full 12 without going down. And since he is still young, he has plenty of opportunities to face and beat top heavyweights. He isn't "a notch above garbage" as you put it.
if your boy had any skill, you wouldn't have to make excuses for him: thus, the term garbage is accurate
It's easy to talk **** about a world ranked fighter when you haven't stepped in a ring and fought before. Garbage is not accurate. No fighter should be labeled garbage, especially when they have risen to the number 2 spot in their division according to RING Magazine (whether you agree with it or not).
People want to see him fight, he has a very exciting fighting style. George Foreman wasnt the most skilled boxer in the world, yet beat very good fighters throughout his career and retired an ATG.
whether a fighter is an atg is a relative statement, and sam peter hasn't beaten any good fighters (toney was a good middleweight-cruiserweight)
He hasn't beaten the competition that a lot of heavyweights have now, but Rahman, Holyfield, Ruiz, and Guinn couldn't beat Toney. Peter did the 1st fight (although it was controversial) and he easily beat him the 2nd fight, so he did perform better against Toney than those guys did.
The same middlewieght/cruiser that also beat Holyfield and Ruiz at Heavywieght, and retired a undefeated prospect in Rydell Booker.
