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The Mecca of boxing, Madison Square Garden will host WBC No. 1-ranked Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter and heavyweight challenger Jameel McCline when they fight for the WBC Interim Heavyweight Championship. Opportunity knocked for McCline after WBC titlist Oleg Maskaev injured his back in training last week. McCline, who had been preparing for a bout against Vitali Klitschko (slated for Sept. 22, but scraped due to read more ...

The rash injuries plaguing big fight cards has struck again. Fightnews has learned that the October 6 WBC heavyweight championship clash between Oleg Maskaev and Samuel Peter at Madison Square Garden will be postponed due to injuries sustained by Maskaev to his back and ankle. According to Maskaev manager Fred Kesch, Oleg has been working very hard and "really wants this fight." Maskaev came back in pain and tilted read more ...

Frazier, Maskaev and Peter conducted the ceremonial 10-count to officially retire the ring by striking the Garden’s original brass bell. The bell, the one that has adorned the Garden’s ring for 82 years, will continue in service alongside the new boxing ring that will host Maskaev and Peter when they clash for the WBC heavyweight world championship on Oct. 6, 2007 (live on SHOWTIME, 10 p.m. ET/PT) read more ...

FightNews has been informed that promoters Don King and Dennis Rappaport have signed the contracts for WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev to defend his title against #1 WBC and mandatory challenger Samuel Peter on October 6th at The Garden. The highly anticipated Maskaev-Peter showdown will be televised on a premium network read more ...

“Due to the fact that the WBC heavyweight champion of the world, Oleg Maskaev of Russia, has refused, through his representative, to sign the contract to fight mandatory challenger Samuel Peter of Nigeria, the President of the African Boxing Union, Houcine Houichi, has sent a recommendation for the WBC to not only continue in court on the case presented by the champion’s representative, but to also unfreeze read more ...

The ongoing controversy regarding WBC Heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev and mandatory challenger Samuel Peter may finally be settled in the ring when the two power-punchers get it on at a venue to be determined this fall, Fightnews has learned. The fight is tentatively scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 29. "I'm waiting for some confirmations but nothing is etched in stone," an irritated Dennis Rappaport read more ...

Five months after Samuel Peter earned a heavyweight title shot against Oleg Maskaev, the fight moved a critical step closer to happening Monday when promoter Dino Duva won a WBC-ordered purse bid in Mexico City. Duva, Peter's promoter, won the right to stage the fight with a bid of $3.201 million. "Now it's time to work my [butt] off," Duva told ESPN.com in an e-mail. read more ...

The Oleg Maskaev-Sam Peter purse bid has been postponed again and has been rescheduled for Monday May 7, 2007 at the WBC's offices in Mexico City. read more ...

You're finally going to be fighting for the WBC heavyweight title against Oleg Maskaev. Can you give us some thoughts on that? "It's great for me to have the opportunity to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. I've earned the shot and I'm glad this is going to be happening soon because I wanted to be champion of the world already. I know they say the fight could go to a purse-bid, but I just want to fight now read more ...

Samuel Peter won two consecutive WBC mandated eliminators over James Toney to earn a shot at Maskaev. Not long after the second win over Toney, which took place in January, former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs) announced that he was coming out of retirement to challenge Maskaev. Because Klitschko retired as WBC champion in November 2005 due to a knee injury, the WBC promised him an immediate title shot if he ever read more ...