Lamont Peterson retires following crushing loss to Sergey Lipinets in MD.

The Wonderful career of DC’s former 3 time world champion Lamont Peterson, came to a sad close last night following a 10th round knockout loss at the hands of California based welterweight, Sergey Lipinets, in the main event at the MGM National Harbour Casino in Oxon hill Maryland..
The emotional Peterson announced his retirement to his home crowd and Tv audience following the bout, stating “Its been a long career, but today’s the day.”
The majority of the fight was fought at close quarters, with Peterson enjoying success to the body in the early going. Neither fighter took complete control in the early rounds, until Lipinets began to land more frequently around the sixth.. By round 9 Peterson’s work-rate had dropped and the momentum of the action appeared to favour Lipinets, who seemed to be controlling the bout.. Lipinets started to land the more damaging shots going into the 10th round, a solid right hand staggered Peterson and a series of follow up shots dropped Peterson heavily.. Compassionately, Peterson’s trainer Barry Hunter, jumped onto the apron and offered in the towel to save his fighter.. Hunter embraced his beaten charge in the ring, as referee Harvey Dock stopped the fight at 2:58 of the 10th..
Peterson leaves a record of 34-5-1, 17 KO’s and he is one of six DC fighters to hold three or more world titles in the four major governing bodies (WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO) joining Sugar Ray Leonard, Simon Brown, William Joppy, Mark Johnson and Hasim Rahman. Lipinets, himself a former world champion, is now 15-1, 11 KO’s.

This was a rough evening for both Peterson Brothers. Super lightweight, Anthony battled Argenis Mendez of Yonkers, NY to a 10-round draw.
Peterson spent most of the bout on the outside, with both men having their moments in a too and fro bout, but neither man seized the chance to take control of the action.
Judges Larry Hazzard and John Gradowski had the bout scored 96-94 for each fighter respective.. as Paul Wallace had it a draw at 95-95..