Samuel Peter

From the Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas for tomorrow night’s card on Fox Sports en Espanol, promoted by Top Rank. Hernan ‘Tyson’ Marquez 113.5 vs. Richie Mepranum 112.25 Samuel Peter 237.5 vs. Nagy Aguilera 230.5 read more ...

Undefeated young light heavyweight prospect Ismayl “The Black Russian” Sillakh (11-0, 10 KOs) has signed a promotional agreement with Roy Jones, Jr.’s Square Ring Promotions, it was announced today by Chief Executive Officer John Wirt. “We’re extremely excited about signing this kind of young talent,” said Wirt read more ...

According to the usually accurate BoxRec.com, former WBC heavyweight champion Samuel Peter will face young heavyweight Nagy Aguilera in an IBF elimination bout in Dallas the night before the big Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey welterweight title clash read more ...

In a wildly entertaining bout Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter (33-3, 26 KOs) scored a fourth round TKO over 363lb Gabe “Big G” Brown (18-13-4, 12 KOs) at 2:58. Although Peter dominated the action, Brown’s antics won the night as he taunted the former world champion repeatedly. After eating a hard punch, Brown proceeded to stick out his chin and absorb four clean shots only to call for more. After being knocked down read more ...

In a clash for the WBA interim lightweight championship, WBA #8 Miguel Acosta (25-9-2, 19 KOs) scored an explosive ninth round KO upset over previously unbeaten WBC #1 Urbano Antillon (26-0, 19 KOs) on Saturday night in Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico. Brisk two-way action early with Antillon applying heavy pressure, but Acosta’s movement frustrated Antillion as the bout progressed read more ...

Former world heavyweight champion Sam Peter of Nigeria has signed with Top Rank and will fight this weekend in Mexico. Peter, (30-3-0, 23 KOs) will fight on Top Rank’s Latin Fury 10 in Tepic, Mexico. He will take on Marcus McGee, (22-16-1, 11 KOs) read more ...

Chambers landed solid straight punches all night, outboxing former heavyweight champion Samuel Peter to win a majority decision Friday at the Nokia Theatre. Chambers, who has won four straight since losing an IBF title eliminator, turned it up in the ninth round, landing several hard shots and cutting Peter (30-2, 23 KOs) on his lower lip read more ...

Los Angeles, CA – The number 3 World-ranked heavyweight contender “Fast” Eddie Chambers arrived in Los Angeles at LAX to finish the final preparations of his training for his battle against #5 World-ranked and former WBC World Heavyweight Champion Sam Peter that will take place on March 27 at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in what will be the inaugural boxing event for the centerpiece at L.A. LIVE. The fistic 12-round main event read more ...

A battle between heavyweight contenders Sam Peter (32-2, 23KOs) and Eddie Chambers (33-1, 18KOs) has been finalized to take place on March 27 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California. ESPN will televise the fight. It is the first boxing event at Nokia to feature heavyweight contenders. Peter returns from a one-sided TKO loss to Vitali Klitschko, suffered last October in Germany read more ...

Former WBC heavyweight champion Samuel "The Nigerian Nightmare" Peter could face Monte Barrett in his first fight back following an embarrassing loss to Vitali Klitschko. Barrett had this to say, "My advisor and his manager have already spoken and everybody likes the fight. You know I don't turn no fights like this down and if Samuel is man enough to sign on the dotted line, I'll be there to put him flat on his behind read more ...