Alright...so I am sure that this has probably been done to death...but let's take a poll on the matter of Samuel Peter vs Maskaev vs Vitali.

The WBC #1 ranked heavyweight contender Samuel Peter has been offered $2.5 million by Maskaev's & returning champion Vitali Klitschko's camp in the form of "step-aside" money with a contracted deal to fight the winner soon afterwards. On top of this, Peter has been guranteed a purse split of 50-50 to fight the winner of the May 15th bout.

If he doesn't take this offer it goes to the hands of lawyers & judges & get's stuck in court.

As previuosly discussed...right is right & wrong is wrong & many of us feel that it's wrong for Vitali to just hope right back in the saddle again...but some of you see no issue with it.

Now that this offer is on the table for Peter...what do you think? Vote it out & then explain it.

Just curious where everyone stands on this one.

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***NEW NEWS ON SAM PETER'S SITUATION***

As widely reported over the past few weeks, Vitali Klitschko and his advisors are engaged in an effort to push Samuel Peter aside and delay the Nigerian’s exercise of his right to fight Oleg Maskaev for the WBC heavyweight title. In support of that maneuvering, the Klitschko and Maskaev camps (in conjunction with the WBC) have publicized a $2,500,000 “step-aside” offer that was supposedly made to Peter. However, it turns out that the offer has some loopholes that make it considerably less generous than advertised.

For example; when the offer was clarified, the Peter camp was told that, if Maskaev-Klitschko never happens (let’s say that Vitali is injured while training and can’t compete), Samuel would receive only $500,000. Then negotiations were put on hold while the Klitschko camp tried to find an insurer who would back a larger number.

“They’re not even telling half-truths,” grumbles one member of Team Peter. “Twenty-percent truths is more like it.”

“That’s Shelly Finkel math,” says Shannon Briggs, who’s still steamed over failed negotiations for a Madison Square Garden title bout against Wladimir Klitschko last year. “Shelly [Klitschko’s advisor] told me I had the fight,” Briggs continues. “He said, ‘It’s not one hundred percent; it’s one thousand percent.’ I don’t know; I wasn’t that good in school. Maybe one thousand percent is less than one hundred percent.”

Meanwhile, there’s another issue regarding the Klitschko-Maskaev-Peter-WBC mess that might surface shortly.

Samuel Peter is one of the two best heavyweights ever to come out of Africa (Ike Ibeabuchi is the other). Were Peter to defeat Maskaev and become WBC heavyweight champion, it would raise the profile of boxing throughout the continent and Samuel would be recognized as a hero.

How long will it be before Don King (Peter’s co-promoter) seizes on that fact and contrasts Samuel’s African heritage with that of Klitschko, Maskaev, and WBC president Jose Sulaiman?

http://www.secondsout.com/USA/news.cfm?ccs=229&cs=21508

I'd like to go ahead & say...I don't know WTF to think now.

Maybe Peter should just fight this & see what kind of ACTUAL guarantees he can get legit.