Samuel Peter, WBC Interim Heavyweight Champion, is looking in great shape in l0 days before his long awaited fight against Oleg Maskaev. Peter promises to punish and KO Maskaev when they meet on March 8 in Cancun Mexico. This fight will be for the WBC Heavyweight Title. Samuel Peter earned his shot more times than he should have and will finally get his chance to get the actual belt. On September 2, 2006, Peter defeated James Toney by SD in a WBC Heavyweight eliminator. It was a disputed decision as many including myself felt James Toney won. The disputes were heard loud and clear by the WBC who decided to mandate another eliminator on January 6, 2007 between Peter and Toney. In this fight Peter looked great in earning a well deserved UD over Toney. So after winning two title eliminators a fighter definitely gets his shot at the championship right? In boxing you never get what you see at least not at first. Vitali Klitschko who retired in 2005 and became the WBC Champion Emeritus decided he wanted to come out of retirement and fight for the title against Oleg Maskaev. Because of his Emeritus status that meant he would skip over Peter and go straight to Maskaev. Well Peter and his camp were not having that and I don't blame them. Klitschko who in my opinion faked injuries to avoid defending the title was dead wrong. So after months of legal issues it was decided that Peter would fight Maskaev on October 6, 2007. So this fight is about to happen then Maskaev cries back injury and can't fight. Then Vitali Klitschko who decided to take a tune-up before he fought the winner of Peter-Maskaev cries injury and pulls out of his fight. Tired of all the drama, the WBC names Samuel Peter the Interim Heavyweight Champion and he defends it against Jameel McCline who was in shape because Klitschko pulled out of their fight. Peter defeats McCline but not in an easy fashion as Peter was knocked down 3 times in the fight. Those were the only knockdowns Peter had in his career. In that fight a lot of people saw plenty of weaknesses in Peter's game and question if he would be able to be Maskaev. Well March 8 is almost here, the drama is almost over and the fist must do the talking. Peter looks like he has trimmed down some more and tightened his muscles. I expect this fight to be very exciting, way more exciting than that trash that was on this past Saturday (Wladimir Klitschko-Sultan Ibragimov). Samuel Peter has something to prove because of how long he had to wait to get his title chance as well as to prove that his last fight against McCline was just a bad night. Samuel Peter has something to prove to boxing fans everywhere and so far he is looking good.
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