Samuel Peters; an overhyped Danny Williams?

[Kid Achilles]

The guy is the future champion of the world. You've heard it here first!

[paul750]

there have been so many disapointments in the heavyweight division, i'll not be suprised if peter is exposed, we'll just have to wait and see

[SacTown1]

there have been so many disapointments in the heavyweight division, i'll not be suprised if peter is exposed, we'll just have to wait and see

Yeah I don't ever put stock into young heavyweight contenders anymore, they always seem to disappoint

[scap]

If Peter can take a punch then he is going to have some success at this level.

If Peter can let his hands go when he is taking leather then in this division he should be able to grab one of the alphabet titles at some point in his career.

In this division it is not hard to get intrigued about a fighter and I apologize if I offend anyone but I am intrigued.

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

I wouldn't really call hsi power so-so. That's not accurate. He has KO'd some people earlier than they were ever taken out, and he KO'd Juan Carlos Gomez who had never even lost, had never seemed hurt, much less been KO'd. Of course he does not have great power but good enough. In any case, Diaz earned a shot at Peter by stopping Gomez. Everyone knows Peter is not top 10 yet, and he will not be fighting top 10 guys until a year or two, if he is smart.

[Kimmy]

I wouldn't really call hsi power so-so. That's not accurate. He has KO'd some people earlier than they were ever taken out, and he KO'd Juan Carlos Gomez who had never even lost, had never seemed hurt, much less been KO'd. Of course he does not have great power but good enough. In any case, Diaz earned a shot at Peter by stopping Gomez. Everyone knows Peter is not top 10 yet, and he will not be fighting top 10 guys until a year or two, if he is smart.

I agree. Peter i think is going at an ok pace. He isn`t fighting top ten yet but he is fighting top 30. I think putting him in with a Oleg Maskaev or a Larry Donald would be a step in the right direction. We`d be able to judge him off those performances because both Maskaev and Donald have fought some top quality guys. Then by the new year providing he gets by those guys put him in with Kirk Johnson or dare i say Mike Tyson
( Tyson is a top 20 fighter at this point ).

[Neuraxis]

I wouldn't really call hsi power so-so. That's not accurate. He has KO'd some people earlier than they were ever taken out, and he KO'd Juan Carlos Gomez who had never even lost, had never seemed hurt, much less been KO'd. Of course he does not have great power but good enough. In any case, Diaz earned a shot at Peter by stopping Gomez. Everyone knows Peter is not top 10 yet, and he will not be fighting top 10 guys until a year or two, if he is smart.

JCG was not serious for that fight at all, and anyways he's over-rated heavyweight who's nothing more than a blown up cruiser weight who came into that fight at 228 lbs when in his previous fight against Sam he weighed 213 lbs. Diaz has 8 KOs in 13 wins, most of which are against nobodies. Some of the people who Diaz couldn't KO were KO'd by the likes of Terry Smith, Lyakhovich, Faruq Saleem, Garing Lane, Pedro Franco, and Nikolai Kulpin, none of which have much pop except for maybe Saleem, but then again Saleem has just built up his high KO % fighting bums.

[Neuraxis]

I agree. Peter i think is going at an ok pace. He isn`t fighting top ten yet but he is fighting top 30. I think putting him in with a Oleg Maskaev or a Larry Donald would be a step in the right direction. We`d be able to judge him off those performances because both Maskaev and Donald have fought some top quality guys. Then by the new year providing he gets by those guys put him in with Kirk Johnson or dare i say Mike Tyson
( Tyson is a top 20 fighter at this point ).

Maskaev would actually be a very smart fight for Peter to take as his step up fight. Maskaev seems to get a pass for his chin.

[freirui]

Peter is a bum.

[hollister]

I'm not really well versed on either fighter, but from what I saw Chris Byrd is probably capable of hitting harder than Diaz, if he were to sit down on his punches. That being said, whenever Diaz hit Peter with a solid right hand, Peter stopped punching, and didn't continue to run in on Diaz, either. Maybe if he becomes more rounded as a fighter, he'll be sucessful. To me though, right now he seems too skittish for the straight brawler type.