By Michael Lieberman: In one of the more hilarious conference calls I’ve had the pleasure to listen to, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (30-1, 23 KOs) and WBC emeritus champion Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs) traded barbs back and forth, mangling the English language constantly and attacking each other verbally like wild dogs. Good stuff when I could make out what they were saying through their thick foreign accents. The two will be facing each other in the ring on October 11th, at the O2 World Arena, Kreuzberg, in Berlin, Germany.
The 37 year-old Vitali, a former WBC heavyweight champion from four years ago in 2004, now looks old and has a good amount of gray hair to go with his aged looks. Peter, 28, will be coming into the fight with his natural slightly overweight look to him. He punches plenty hard, though, for a fighter that looks as out of shape as he sometimes does, and this may be a problem for the ring rusty Vitali to have to deal with at this late stage in his career.