Who knows what happened but I don't think this was some overall plan by Peterson's team to get his name out, seems like they wouldn't have said anything on their own to begin with but it got out to Doug Fischer from someone else and they either disagreed with the report or didn't want their guy to look bad.

I doubt he got punished or anything, he's a defensively responsible fighter. Its of course possible that he wasn't ready to do more than 8 four minute rounds.