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George Peterson “We don’t duck nobody and we haven’t ducked anybody”
By Gabriel Montoya
August 15,2007
DogHouseboxing.com
This week, I received a call from WBO Welterweight titlist Paul Williams’ manager George Peterson. We spoke on Paul’s future plans as well as some of the other welterweights in Boxing’s hottest division. If you have never spoken to Peterson, his words in print may throw you a bit. When he speaks, you can hear the smile cracking across his face. With Mr. Peterson, the line between vehement and jovial is blurry in a good way.
Gabriel Montoya: Hi Mr. Peterson. Thanks for returning my call.
George Peterson: (laughs) You been trying to get a hold of me for a minute.
GM: Yeah. So I wanted to talk to you about Paul and what his future plans are.
GP: Well, we want to fight Cotto. We want to fight Mayweather. Those guys. We want the gold, you understand? We’re done fighting the tough guys. Matthyse. Everyone said ‘Oh no, don’ fight him. He’ s got 25 fights and 25 knockouts’. Guess what? We stopped him. They said ‘Don’t fight Mitchell he’s too crafty.’ We stopped him, too. They said you ain’t going to beat Margarito. Guess what? We’re done with all that. We want the easy fights now.
GM: All the top guys are taken at this point. Hatton and Mayweather. Mosley and Cotto. One guys that available is Cintron. I talked with Cintron this week and his manager Manny Steward. They both want Paul in December. Would you be into that?
GP: (laughing) We don’t need to fight no crybaby, similac needing fighter. He needs to go and fight Margarito. Him crying in the ring. You don’t do that. Did you see that fight?
GM: I did. What I didn’t realize is that Cintron had broken his hand, ruptured a tendon and had like 4 weeks to train and only two where he could use that hand going into the Margarito fight. It kind of changed my view of the way he broke down and the way Margarito took him apart. Does that change anything for you?
GP: No no, no, no. There was no hand… we went into the Margarito fight with a rib injury. And we went in there with a hand injury as well. You may have heard that we were in the hospital in Puerto Rico. Did you hear that?
GM: I heard rumors but I heard that it wasn’t true from someone near your camp. So it was true?
GP: Those rumors you heard, they were true. He had a rib injury and a hand injury. Five days before the fight I was contemplating stopping the fight. Not going on with the fight. And sure enough, I don’t know how the media got a hold of it but they got a hold of it.
GM: Well, I stand corrected. I was sitting at ringside saying ‘ no, no he’s not injured. He’s fine.”
GP: That’s right. That exactly right. Well, that’s why we couldn’t sit down on our punches. And that is another reason why he had to work those angles why he did. We knew he couldn’t take no tremendous body shots.
GM: And he still did. He took a few…more than a few tremendous bodyshots.
GP: He took a few. He took a few. I think the adrenaline got to him; started to flow and got him going. But if that was the case with Cintron and he claimed he had a hand injury in there, then why isn’t he trying to get back in there and, and, and, and, and, and ask for ...Uh, uh, uh …
GM: For Margarito?
GP: Yeah Margarito.
GM: He did. He told me this week, I literally interviewed him yesterday____
GP: (Cutting in) I don’t hear, I don’t hear an all out move trying to make that fight with Margarito and they last fought Matthyse so why didn’t he ask for Margarito then?
GM: You know …did you watch the broadcast of the fight? Because I have the answer to that question.
GP: No.
GM: He called out Mosley because he thought Mosley was going to be available and that Margarito would beat Paul and the Cotto fight would be set. You know, Cotto and Margarito was set.
GP: Nobody out there at 147 lbs. going to beat Paul Williams. 147 or 154.
GM: Would you be willing to fight Margarito or Cintron if he called you guys out? ‘Cause he called you guys out.
GP: He has to beat somebody. He hasn’t beat nobody. If he avenge his fight with Margarito, we get the winner. Look, there’s no gold fighting Cintron. There’s no nothing. And like I said, you gotta get this guy some pampers and a milk bottle. He’s a big crybaby.
GM: Not even the belt. You don’t see taking his belt and then dangling that in front of the other champions___
GP: We don’t need that belt. There’s just nothing there, you know? He’s a big crybaby. We run from nobody. Nobody. Margarito. Walter Matthyse. He [Cintron] beat Walter Matthyse after we beat Matthyse and tore him apart. He was no good after Paul got to him. Beat him for ten whole rounds. Beat the brakes off of him.
GM: So where does Paul go from here? I mean, end of the year’s coming. TV dates are getting pulled up. Mosley, Cotto, Hatton, Mayweather, those guys are all taken. Who do you see that’s left for the rest of the year, that isn’t Cintron, but is at a level that Paul wants to be at? That’s somebody that is an easy fight, that’s the gold that you are talking about?
GP: Well you know, Margarito would be another good fight. Zab Judah would be a good fight. You know, those guys come to fight. They ain’t no crybabies. They get out there and they fight.
GM: But Zab Judah is coming off a loss. As opposed to Cintron who is coming off a win. Why is he better?
GP: Listen to this. Why is he better? Did you see the fight between Cotto and Zab Judah?
GM: Twice. Yeah.
GP: You saw it twice?
GM: Yeah.
GP: Did you see Zab Judah step to him and lay him down and did you see what Cotto did?
GM: Oh. You’re talking about the low blows? That’s why I saw it twice.
GP: It made a big difference.
GM: It did. It had an effect. I’ll agree with you there.
GP: It made a big difference so you can’t take nothing away from Zab Judah. Zab Judah is a good guy. And people need to recognize that. Because sure enough, if Cotto hadn’t gone to his Plan B, Zab Judah would have laid him down, brother.
GM At the same time, Zab Judah hasn’t beaten anybody.
GP: Huh?
GM: He hasn’t beaten anybody. He got knocked out by Kostya Tszyu, lost to Mayweather, and he lost to Cotto. Low blows or no____
GP: People got knocked out by Kostya Tsyzu.
GM A lot of people but what I am saying____
GP: Kostya Tsyzu knocked out a lot of people, brother.
GM: That’s what I’m saying. Who’s Zab Judah beaten? Why is he any better than Cintron?
GP: Cintron hasn’t beaten nobody. Who has Cintron beaten? He cried. He broke down like a newborn baby. Look at the fight with Margarito and Cintron. Even if he did have one hand was there any room for him to break down like? He ain’t got no heart. He reminds you of the Wizard of Oz. You remember the old lion that was on the Wizard of Oz that had no heart? Man, you don’t break down like that.
GM: I have trouble disagreeing with you but I don’t know the man’s heart so I don’t know why___
By Gabriel Montoya
August 15,2007
DogHouseboxing.com
This week, I received a call from WBO Welterweight titlist Paul Williams’ manager George Peterson. We spoke on Paul’s future plans as well as some of the other welterweights in Boxing’s hottest division. If you have never spoken to Peterson, his words in print may throw you a bit. When he speaks, you can hear the smile cracking across his face. With Mr. Peterson, the line between vehement and jovial is blurry in a good way.
Gabriel Montoya: Hi Mr. Peterson. Thanks for returning my call.
George Peterson: (laughs) You been trying to get a hold of me for a minute.
GM: Yeah. So I wanted to talk to you about Paul and what his future plans are.
GP: Well, we want to fight Cotto. We want to fight Mayweather. Those guys. We want the gold, you understand? We’re done fighting the tough guys. Matthyse. Everyone said ‘Oh no, don’ fight him. He’ s got 25 fights and 25 knockouts’. Guess what? We stopped him. They said ‘Don’t fight Mitchell he’s too crafty.’ We stopped him, too. They said you ain’t going to beat Margarito. Guess what? We’re done with all that. We want the easy fights now.
GM: All the top guys are taken at this point. Hatton and Mayweather. Mosley and Cotto. One guys that available is Cintron. I talked with Cintron this week and his manager Manny Steward. They both want Paul in December. Would you be into that?
GP: (laughing) We don’t need to fight no crybaby, similac needing fighter. He needs to go and fight Margarito. Him crying in the ring. You don’t do that. Did you see that fight?
GM: I did. What I didn’t realize is that Cintron had broken his hand, ruptured a tendon and had like 4 weeks to train and only two where he could use that hand going into the Margarito fight. It kind of changed my view of the way he broke down and the way Margarito took him apart. Does that change anything for you?
GP: No no, no, no. There was no hand… we went into the Margarito fight with a rib injury. And we went in there with a hand injury as well. You may have heard that we were in the hospital in Puerto Rico. Did you hear that?
GM: I heard rumors but I heard that it wasn’t true from someone near your camp. So it was true?
GP: Those rumors you heard, they were true. He had a rib injury and a hand injury. Five days before the fight I was contemplating stopping the fight. Not going on with the fight. And sure enough, I don’t know how the media got a hold of it but they got a hold of it.
GM: Well, I stand corrected. I was sitting at ringside saying ‘ no, no he’s not injured. He’s fine.”
GP: That’s right. That exactly right. Well, that’s why we couldn’t sit down on our punches. And that is another reason why he had to work those angles why he did. We knew he couldn’t take no tremendous body shots.
GM: And he still did. He took a few…more than a few tremendous bodyshots.
GP: He took a few. He took a few. I think the adrenaline got to him; started to flow and got him going. But if that was the case with Cintron and he claimed he had a hand injury in there, then why isn’t he trying to get back in there and, and, and, and, and, and ask for ...Uh, uh, uh …
GM: For Margarito?
GP: Yeah Margarito.
GM: He did. He told me this week, I literally interviewed him yesterday____
GP: (Cutting in) I don’t hear, I don’t hear an all out move trying to make that fight with Margarito and they last fought Matthyse so why didn’t he ask for Margarito then?
GM: You know …did you watch the broadcast of the fight? Because I have the answer to that question.
GP: No.
GM: He called out Mosley because he thought Mosley was going to be available and that Margarito would beat Paul and the Cotto fight would be set. You know, Cotto and Margarito was set.
GP: Nobody out there at 147 lbs. going to beat Paul Williams. 147 or 154.
GM: Would you be willing to fight Margarito or Cintron if he called you guys out? ‘Cause he called you guys out.
GP: He has to beat somebody. He hasn’t beat nobody. If he avenge his fight with Margarito, we get the winner. Look, there’s no gold fighting Cintron. There’s no nothing. And like I said, you gotta get this guy some pampers and a milk bottle. He’s a big crybaby.
GM: Not even the belt. You don’t see taking his belt and then dangling that in front of the other champions___
GP: We don’t need that belt. There’s just nothing there, you know? He’s a big crybaby. We run from nobody. Nobody. Margarito. Walter Matthyse. He [Cintron] beat Walter Matthyse after we beat Matthyse and tore him apart. He was no good after Paul got to him. Beat him for ten whole rounds. Beat the brakes off of him.
GM: So where does Paul go from here? I mean, end of the year’s coming. TV dates are getting pulled up. Mosley, Cotto, Hatton, Mayweather, those guys are all taken. Who do you see that’s left for the rest of the year, that isn’t Cintron, but is at a level that Paul wants to be at? That’s somebody that is an easy fight, that’s the gold that you are talking about?
GP: Well you know, Margarito would be another good fight. Zab Judah would be a good fight. You know, those guys come to fight. They ain’t no crybabies. They get out there and they fight.
GM: But Zab Judah is coming off a loss. As opposed to Cintron who is coming off a win. Why is he better?
GP: Listen to this. Why is he better? Did you see the fight between Cotto and Zab Judah?
GM: Twice. Yeah.
GP: You saw it twice?
GM: Yeah.
GP: Did you see Zab Judah step to him and lay him down and did you see what Cotto did?
GM: Oh. You’re talking about the low blows? That’s why I saw it twice.
GP: It made a big difference.
GM: It did. It had an effect. I’ll agree with you there.
GP: It made a big difference so you can’t take nothing away from Zab Judah. Zab Judah is a good guy. And people need to recognize that. Because sure enough, if Cotto hadn’t gone to his Plan B, Zab Judah would have laid him down, brother.
GM At the same time, Zab Judah hasn’t beaten anybody.
GP: Huh?
GM: He hasn’t beaten anybody. He got knocked out by Kostya Tszyu, lost to Mayweather, and he lost to Cotto. Low blows or no____
GP: People got knocked out by Kostya Tsyzu.
GM A lot of people but what I am saying____
GP: Kostya Tsyzu knocked out a lot of people, brother.
GM: That’s what I’m saying. Who’s Zab Judah beaten? Why is he any better than Cintron?
GP: Cintron hasn’t beaten nobody. Who has Cintron beaten? He cried. He broke down like a newborn baby. Look at the fight with Margarito and Cintron. Even if he did have one hand was there any room for him to break down like? He ain’t got no heart. He reminds you of the Wizard of Oz. You remember the old lion that was on the Wizard of Oz that had no heart? Man, you don’t break down like that.
GM: I have trouble disagreeing with you but I don’t know the man’s heart so I don’t know why___
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