you guys absolutely kill me. Ive watched the knockdowns over and over. The first knockdown is hard for me to even call a knock down. McCline bumped into him with his shoulder. . peters was already falling back on his heels, the punch just basically pushed him off his feet while he was unbalanced. The second knockdown was a clean hard uppercut. Peters took a hell of a shot and stood back up. The third knockdown was also Peters getting pushed by a bigger man, but he was definately still hurt and hanging on after getting hurt. But, why does he get no credit for standing back up 3 times and outboxing McCline the rest of the fight to take the win??? I had him ahead by 2 rounds at the end of the fight. What else can you expect of a fighter? Hes one of the most entertaining heavy's we see out there. He took a fight he didnt even need to take on a week notice AND after a nine month layoff. He faced adversity and tasted the canvas for the first time and he didnt shell up like all the other heavys do. . he fought on and changed the fight. So he got dropped really by 1 monsterous uppercut and now he has a glass jaw all the sudden???? You guys are dellusional. He showed that his boxing skills are improved. . doubling the jab all night, had better cardio then McCline, a good punch output, and lets face it, McCline was a mountain next to Peters. Sam will only continue to get better. I think right now the only person that beats him is Wlad. . . IF, IF, Wlad can keep from getting knocked out.
Outside of getting knocked down, Peter's (btw, it's PETER, not PeterS) performance was quite good, and he deserves credit for getting back up to win the fight. And sure, the talk of his having a "glass jaw" is WAY premature. All this shows is that his chin is not quite as rock solid as the Wlad fight made it appear. Neither, however, is it as bad as it looked in the third round of the McCline fight. I am still convinced that Peter will win a title, and maybe even unify. Personally, I hope he DOES develop into the dominant champion many of us thought he would be. It would be GOOD for BOXING if he did.
I'll say it again. Sam walked into this thinking McCline couldn't hurt him so he disregarded defense. It was apparent in round 1 that he had no respect for McCline's power. Just look at what happened with McBride - Golota. McBride had Golota stunned and we all know Golota can take a punch. Sam just ****ed up last night. You just cannot under any circumstances take clean shots from a man 6'6 260lbs. I don't care if you have an iron chin. Of course Klitco is going to say that Sam has no chin and Waldo will kill him in a rematch. Funny isn't it? That Waldo couldn't get that done the first time. Too bad for them they leave out the fact that Sam didn't take Waldo lightly and kept his guard up all night. Which he will do in a rematch as well.
Chagaev would make clown shoes out of Peter.. Probably Ibragimov, would too. I don't see Peter beating any other titleholder. I don't even see him beating Maskaev to earn the WBC title.
yeah, thats what shows the boxing experts!!! get knocked down by a not so highly rated guy and you got no chin. i mean it happend to kelly pavlik.....does he have weak wiskers?? or muhammed ali?? sonny banks dropped him, so did cooper.......man yeah, i see it, glass jaw for sure.....
Scam Cheater couldn't even beat Chris Byrd much less any of the current REAL champions or the prospects like Povetkin. It's only a matter of time before Wlad destroys his ego again.
Peter doesn't have a glass chin...He took some serious shots against wlad...The problem is that he just fought James Toney twice...A defensive fighter with 0 power at heavyweight...This means that he hasn't taken a real hard heavyweight shot since he fought Wlad which was September of 2005! Of course his chin is going to be a little bit shaky!