By Jim Dower: With his 2nd round knockout win over Nagy Aguilera in the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title eliminator bout on March 12th, the 29-year-old Peter has assured himself a fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) in the future. The only thing that Peter has to do now is wait for Klitschko to get finished with his fight this Saturday night against American challenger Eddie Chambers, and then after that Klitschko has one more fight, a bout against Alexander Povetkin, the International Boxing Federation mandatory challenger who has been waiting two long years to get a shot against Wladimir.

Hopefully, Klitschko doesn’t take a fight against WBA heavyweight champion David Haye after the fight with Chambers, provided that Klitschko even beats him. That won’t be an easy task for Klitschko, because he has a short, quick heavyweight with a lot of skills to deal with. Chambers is a better heavyweight than what Klitschko has faced in a long time, perhaps dating back to his fight against Chris Byrd in 2006.

Peter has turned his career around completely since suffering back to back losses to Vitali Klitschko and Chambers in 2008 and 2009. In his 8th round stoppage loss to Vitali Klitschko, there wasn’t much Peter could do in that fight. The 6’7” older Klitschko brothers was just too big for him to deal with, and had a strong enough chin to take some of the few big shots that Peter was able to land in the fight.

Peter landed very little, but of the ones that he did land, Klitschko had no problems taking them. In his fight with Chambers last year, Peter made the grave mistake of coming into the fight at a huge 265, which for Peter was about 20 pounds too much. Chambers subsequently took advantage of all the lard that Peter had packed on his body and simply outworked him over the course of a the 10 round bout, beating him by a 10 round majority decision.

It wasn’t spectacular by any means, but Chambers did just barely enough to get the win. With his career on the brink of a meltdown, Peter rededicated himself to his training, lost 20 pounds of flab and has won his last four bouts in an impressive manner. Indeed, Peter has looked like a younger version of himself in stopping his last four opponents.

Granted, his opposition has been B level fighters for the most part, but Peter has looked great in each of the fights. And what’s better is that Peter has taken off so much weight recently, weight that was slowing him down for a number of years since his loss to Wladimir Klitschko in 2005. In his last fight against Aguilera on March 12th, Peter weighed in at 237, the lowest weight for Peter in nine years.

Peter is going to have to wait around for a little while longer before he gets his shot against Klitschko. With Klitschko likely to fight Povetkin next, it won’t be until 2011 before Peter gets his shot. But the important thing is that he does get another shot against Wladimir. In his fight with Wladimir in 2005, Peter knocked him down three times and had him badly hurt and ready to go in the 11th round. Wladimir was able to survive that round, and eventually win the fight by a 12 round decision. However, it showed that Peter has the tools to beat Klitschko due to his power and swarming offense.