Samuel Peters beat James Toney in their rematch yesterday.
There is no doubt in my mind that Peters won the fight, but I think the margin of victory was got wrong on the scorecards, I had him win by 4 rounds.
Peters made some comments after the fight, comparing his moves to Ali and Floyd Mayweather. Christ knows how he came to that conclusion.
A point that Toney made, in a most disparaging manner, but very valid in my opinion, was that Peters is supposed to be "a hell of a puncher" This is the preceived image of Peters, or at least, the one that is banded about by the fight press. But anytime I have watched him fight, he looks cubersome and not a really heavy hitter, more a grind you down with heay punches kind of guy than a guy blessed with genuine knock out power.
I'm very biased in this though, as I regard Toney as a legend in the game.
But it shows the weakness in the current heavyweight division when a fighter like Toney can move uup to Heavyweight for this length of time, and not get physically bullied by naturally bigger men, and the knockdown he suffered last night was the first he suffered since a peak Roy Jones knocked him down.
There is no doubt in my mind that Peters won the fight, but I think the margin of victory was got wrong on the scorecards, I had him win by 4 rounds.
Peters made some comments after the fight, comparing his moves to Ali and Floyd Mayweather. Christ knows how he came to that conclusion.
A point that Toney made, in a most disparaging manner, but very valid in my opinion, was that Peters is supposed to be "a hell of a puncher" This is the preceived image of Peters, or at least, the one that is banded about by the fight press. But anytime I have watched him fight, he looks cubersome and not a really heavy hitter, more a grind you down with heay punches kind of guy than a guy blessed with genuine knock out power.
I'm very biased in this though, as I regard Toney as a legend in the game.
But it shows the weakness in the current heavyweight division when a fighter like Toney can move uup to Heavyweight for this length of time, and not get physically bullied by naturally bigger men, and the knockdown he suffered last night was the first he suffered since a peak Roy Jones knocked him down.
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