Sam, or Samuel, Peter by no means managed to hit the true heights loads of excited followers and a few consultants felt he would attain, however, boy, on his day, or on his greatest night time, “The Nigerian Nightmare” certain might rating a knockout able to chilling the blood. It was on this present day 20 years in the past, when an unbeaten Peter met his stiffest take a look at but. On paper, at the very least.
Jeremy Williams, who had put collectively a 6-0-1 run moving into, tasted the complete results of Peter’s thunderous energy.
The 2 met on the Mandalay Bay in Vegas, and the vacant NABF heavyweight belt was on the road. Peter, already being written about by some fanciful scribes as a modern-day Sonny Liston, or a brand new George Foreman, produced a crushing, one-punch KO that briefly made such lofty comparisons appear considerably sensible.
Peter, excellent at 20-0(17) lit us all up with a spotlight reel KO. Sam, stocky, aggressive, and hungry, was identified on the time for his massive proper hand. Williams, who had lower his tooth in fights with the likes of Marion Wilson, Larry Donald, Bert Cooper, Jesse Ferguson, Henry Akinwande, and Maurice Harris, was searching for the precise hand bomb. As an alternative, taken unawares, Williams was whacked by a depraved left hook. To the top. Flush. Devastatingly so.
Williams was out earlier than he hit the ground in spherical two, he was on his again, stretched out. The referee waved it off immediately, the head-swivelling shot from hell instantaneously sending out messages to the heavyweight division as shortly because it had stopped all communication from the stricken fighter’s mind to his physique.
Peter, on this night time, appeared for all of the world like a world-beater. He appeared like a future heavyweight king.
Peter did go on to win a belt, however he by no means did take his at one time perceived place as the following heavyweight destroyer. However Peter might bang, he might crack – with each arms – and Peter nonetheless to this present day has these followers who noticed him dish out some nasty brutality questioning what might need been.
As it’s proper now, with Mike Tyson having lately entered the ring, and with Ike Ibeabuchi reportedly set to take action earlier than the tip of the yr, who is aware of, perhaps the Samuel Peter story is just not fairly over but……
