News - Samuel Peter

The Nigerian Nightmare, heavyweight Sam Peter, today signed a contract to fight for the world heavyweight championship. Peter will take on IBF Champion Wladimir Klitschko on Sept. 11 in Frankfurt, Germany. Peter signed his contract in the Top Rank headquarters in Las Vegas. Bob Arum made the announcement today read more ...

"Sam Peter Will Fight for the World Heavyweight Championship" -- Hall of Fame Top Rank promoter Bob Arum announced today that Heavyweight challenger "The Nigerian Nightmare" Sam Peter signed the contract to take on IBF World Heavyweight champion Wladmir Klitschko on Saturday,September 11 in Frankfurt Germany. Peter signed his contract in the Top Rank headquarters in Las Vegas. Peter will leave this weekend to be at a press conference in Germany read more ...

Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and former titleholder Samuel Peter will meet in a rematch on Sept. 11 in Frankfurt, Germany, their representatives told ESPN.com Wednesday. "The Sam Peter thing has been agreed to," Top Rank's Bob Arum, Peter's promoter, said. "They're coming into the [Las Vegas] office to sign [on Thursday]. It was a relatively easy negotiation read more ...

Trainer Emanuel Steward said he wasn't concerned with the switch in opponent for Wladimir Klitschko's next fight on September 11 in Frankfurt, Germany. The original opponent Alexander Povetkin was replaced by Sam Peter after a dispute over the contract terms between Povetkin's promoter Sauerland Event and Klitschko's company K2 Promotions read more ...

Some of the contract terms for the heavyweight fight between IBO/WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and previous mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin have been revealed. Their fight was scheduled for September 11 in Frankfurt, Germany. The bout cracked wide open after Povetkin failed to appear at last Monday's press conference in Frankfurt and because Povetkin failed read more ...

The rematch with Peter (34-3, 27 KOs) is an intriguing one because of their first fight. Klitschko was only in his third fight since being knocked out by Lamon Brewster in a title bout a year earlier and there were many questions about his toughness and how he would react when opposing a fearsome puncher such as Peter read more ...

The IBF has confirmed that mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin will be removed from the IBF top ten and that Wladimir will now face the top available opponent on September 11 in Frankfurt, expected to be Sam Peter. Klitschko-Peter would be a rematch of a 2005 bout where Wlad overcame three knockdowns to claim a twelve round decision read more ...

Following several complications surrounding the announcement of the Wladimir Klitschko's mandatory defense and top rated IBF contender Alexander Povetkin, Boxingtalk.com has been informed that the IBF has instructed the Klitschko camp to move onto the next available contender, former WBC champion Samuel Peter read more ...

BoxingScene.com has confirmed that an agreement was reached on Wednesday to match Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30KOs) against John Duddy (29-1, 18KOs) in a middleweight contest on June 26 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas read more ...

In an IBF heavyweight eliminator, former WBC heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (34-3, 27 KOs) scored a second round TKO over Nagy Aguliera (15-3, 10 KOs). After Peter dropped Aguliera with a big right hand, The ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ got the stoppage win with his follow up barrage. Time was 2:24 read more ...