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Nightmare in the hospital
Samuel Peter really got it in Frankfurt. The Nigerian started out actively, but already in the second round he could have left the ring early, and by the middle of the fight he was completely exhausted and for the most part was hanging on Klitschko in the clinch. He, however, for the time being did not force events and, to the whistle of a slightly disappointed audience, continued to fight at an average pace, not disdaining to rest in the clinches. “Entering the clinch was not part of my tactics,” Vladimir later justified himself. “I just didn’t want to avoid fighting with power, as I did in the first fight against Peter, and allow Samuel to put pressure on me. For this reason, I decided to put pressure on him, attack him and force him to fight. Hence the clinches and intense right work.”
Klitschko's right hand worked well, and it was with it that he met most of the Nightmare's attacks. Starting from the fifth round, a noticeably tired Peter began to concede more and more often, and in the sixth he really got into trouble. Perhaps it was this uppercut that finally decided the outcome of the fight - Peter survived three more rounds, taking a lot of what was flying in his direction, but in the tenth he could not stand it, and after a long series of blows he missed, the referee stopped the fight, awarding Klitschko victory by technical knockout.
The Nigerian was not even strong enough to stand on his feet. But he still received flattering words from the winner. “Peter is great. I really wanted to win, I tried. I didn’t even expect such aggression from him at the very beginning of the battle. But with his actions, Samuel only angered me and received an aggressive response, ending the fight on the floor. I really wanted to show my opponent who’s boss here,” Vladimir Klitschko said after the fight, as if apologizing for a not very correct altercation at the pre-match press conference, at which he openly provoked the Nigerian.
With a convincing victory, Vladimir Klitschko once again showed that in the near future one can hardly expect loud sensations and beautiful fights in the heavyweight division. Nikolai Valuev, most likely, will not return to the ring after health problems, and WBA world heavyweight champion Briton David Haye, it seems, is not going to resume negotiations with the Ukrainians. There are no other real contenders for an interesting box office fight among the heavyweights. And the fight between Vitali Klitschko and Shannon Briggs, which will take place on October 16 in Hamburg, will almost certainly be much less interesting than even this predicted victory of Wladimir over the Nightmare.