Vitali Klitschko vs. Samuel Peter, Post Fight Interview !!

Klitschko told reporters after the fight that he wouldn’t have needed much longer to deliver on a promise to end the fight by knockout.

“If Samuel Peter didn’t stop the fight, I have the feeling in the next two rounds, I would have knocked him out,” Klitschko said. “He got more and more punches, and his chin (was) not so strong as the first rounds.”

Klitschko has been WBC “champion emeritus” since a knee injury forced him to withdraw from a fight and retire from boxing in 2005.

The honorary status gave him the right to fight Peter (30-2), who won the interim belt in a fight against Jameel McCline last September, whenever Klitschko chose to come out of retirement.

“I knew if I lost the fight I wouldn’t get a second chance,” Klitschko told reporters after the fight. “It was a one-way ticket, and I used my chance.”

Klitschko is a three-time champion who won the WBC title in 2004 with an eight-round victory over Corrie Sanders. The Peter fight was Klitschko’s first since he defended the crown with an eighth-round win over Danny Williams in Las Vegas in 2004.

Klitschko’s performances as a powerful puncher have often been overshadowed by injury. In 2005, he withdrew from a WBC title fight with Hasim Rahman because of a torn ligament in his right knee. The injury led him to announce his retirement, and the WBC made him “champion emeritus.” Last fall, he announced a comeback fight against Jameel McCline, only to back out after hurting his back and undergoing emergency surgery.