I know Wlad won the fight.
But its almost embarrassing that he had to win by decision. Samuel Peter has no boxing skill at all. If he fights a heavyweight who isn't afraid of him, he is going to get killed. Vitali would have knocked him out.
Wlad threw and landed many more punches than Peter. But throwing 2 when the other guy throws 1 isn't enough. I believe if Wlad had thrown more than 1-2 punch combinations the fight would have been much shorter. He would have knocked Peter out.
Without hitting to the back of the head, Peter would have not hurt Wladimir at all. But likewise, once Wlad knew the referee was not going to call those punches, he should have avoided turning his back so much to Peter. There was one point in the round when Wlad was leaning forward over the ropes, back to Peter. I'm actually surprised that Peter didn't go after him then.
And one more thing - HBO did their very best to make us like Sam Peter. Despite saying how he grew up middle class in Nigeria, they still found a way to show all the dirt covered roads with kids herding cows down the lane. They told how he had to make the toughest decision of his life, to give up being an engineer in Nigera to move to the United States to become a professional fighter. Yeah! That was a tough decision!! They showed him playing around with his kids, blah blah blah
Of course they never mentioned any of Wlad's charitable work or anything about him, really. I guess boxing fans know all that already, right?
The truth is, we cannot hang our hopes on Wladimir Klitschko to change the heavyweight division. It will have rest on Vitali's broad shoulders, or some other up and coming Eastern European fighter.
If anyone disagrees, please, convince me.