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| Samuel Peter |
In the championship tagged “Rumble on the River” at OKC
Downtown Airpark in Oklahoma City, hard-hitting former WBC Champion Nigerian
Samuel Peter (34-5, 27 KOs) will return on Saturday for the first time in three
years to face former ECHL hockey enforcer turned heavyweight KO artist Ron “The
Iceman” Aubrey (12-3, 12 KOs) from Oklahoma City.
Having been on the world stage for most of his career, the
34-year-old Peter will have the edge in experience, but Aubrey will have his
army of fans in his corner, cheering the powerful strongman onto pull the huge
upset. Someone is surely going home sore and disappointed in this war of big
men.
“I am happy to be back in boxing,” said Peter, who hails
from Akwa Ibom State ahead of the night’s eight-round heavyweight “bombs away”
co-main event packaged by Ivaylo Gotzev and his Epic Sports and Entertainment.
“I will dedicate myself to winning the heavyweight championship once again. I’m
ready to knock out anyone who stands in my way.”
“We have a well-rested and recommitted Sam Peter eager to
return to the ring in one of the main events,” Gotzev said.
Peter, who lives in Las Vegas, will be fighting for the
first time in 3½ years and is being matched extremely softly against Oklahoma
City club fighter Ron Aubrey (12-3-1, 12 KOs), 47, an enforcer on the ice
during a 12-year minor league hockey career.
Peter, who turned 34 this month, won a world title in 2008
by knocking out Oleg Maskaev but lost the belt in his first defence when he was
punished for eight one-sided rounds by Vitali Klitschko later that year.
Peter has not fought since suffering a ninth-round knockout
loss to Robert Helenius in 2011, his second knockout loss in a row. In the
previous fight, Peter was stopped in the 10th round challenging heavyweight
champion Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali’s younger brother, in 2010. Aubrey has not
fought since 2012 and his opponents had a combined record of just 9-39-1 when
he faced them.
Aubrey says he has a surprise waiting for Peter.
“He’s got more experience,” admitted Aubrey, “but I’ve been
in hundreds of brawls in my lifetime. I’m not intimidated by him. He’s the
better boxer, but I’m the better brawler and that’s what kind of fight it’s
going to be. I’ve already got 12 knockouts in the ring and Samuel Peter is
going to be my lucky number 13.”
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