HBO boxing personality Harold Lederman is always wonderfully accessible to boxing fans and the media and will always share his comments and thoughts about the sport he adores. There are some well-known, boxing powers-that-be who could and should be more like Harold, which would help the sport?s popularity grow by expressing and verbalizing their love and enthusiasm for boxing news and issues, as Mr. Lederman does once again in this candid interview where he discusses Klitschko-Peter, Hopkins-Pascal, Williams-Martinez II, Floyd?s next move, Berto-Aydin and more?
BoxingInsider.com: Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sam Peter ? were you impressed by that knockout performance?
Harold Lederman: ?Not really. Wladimir has this Hit you once with a left jab, maybe drop a right hand on you, then grab you. That style bothers me. Robert Byrd (referee) let him get away with a lot of holding. It was a one-sided fight. It was all Wladimir. Samuel Peter, even though he?s in better shape, and is doing well with his new trainer, and he?s looking real, real good, for some reason he just couldn?t get off with Wladimir. He never really got his game together. It was a very one-sided fight for Wladimir. It was very easy for Wladimir. He?d land one or two shots, then he?d grab. Samuel Peter had no answer for it. Eventually, Wladimir knocked him out. From speaking with Emanuel Steward, I know Wladimir is a much better puncher than people think he is. Emanuel tells me that all the time. Emanuel has had a lot of tough champions in his life. So Wladimir is a tough guy to fight. He gets away with measuring you out there with the left, then he turns it into a hard left jab. And he drops the right hand on you. His big weakness is his jaw, but you gotta hit him on it to beat him. And Samuel Peter certainly had no success with hitting on the jaw. The question is, Who does he fight next? Personally, I?d love to see David Haye after Haye gets by Audley Harrison ? I think he will. David Haye has a real good right. I don?t think he?s just gonna stand there and let Wladimir bang him around and hold him. I think it?s an interesting fight. Adamek might make an interesting fight with Wladimir just because he has so much heart. Boy, would that be an exciting fight in the Prudential Center (Newark, NJ).?
