Coming out to the ring, Klitschko with a serious face walked along a corridor on both sides of which blue-and-yellow flags fluttered, and in the ring itself a colorful Ukrainian uncle, probably from the diaspora, waved the Ukrainian banner. After a brief introduction and a 30-second stare-down the boxers began.
Klitschko was cautious and, considering his height advantage, tried to keep Peter at a distance. The Ukrainian used his main weapon, the left jab, quite successfully. In the first two rounds after the left jab Volodymyr several times struck the Nigerian's head with right and left, but Peter merely shook his head and continued the fight.
Peter's tactics were quite simple: close in on Volodymyr and punch. Klitschko, in turn, after a series of punches, when he closed in, went into a clinch and this nearly led to a knockout. In the third round Klitschko methodically bombarded his opponent, and at the end of the third round after another clinch Samuel twisted out and through the Ukrainian's arms hit him in the back of the head and immediately with his left to the jaw of Klitschko the younger. Volodya stayed on his feet, but this was the first alarm signal.
The fourth round both boxers spent passively and practically without punches. In the middle of the fifth round after another clinch Peter with a hook sent Klitschko to his knees on the ring floor, but it was a blow with the glove to the back of the head and the Ukrainian mostly fell from inertia, not from the force of the punch. Toward the end of the round again a clinch and again a sweeping blow to the back of Klitschko's head, he cannot withstand it and falls to his knees and at that moment Peter hits Klitschko from above on the head and the referee starts a count for Volodymyr. However, a few seconds later the round ended and Klitschko got lucky for the first time.
In the sixth round Klitschko managed to quickly recover from the knockdown and again conducted it quite successfully. Peter was noticeably tired and it was clear that if Volodymyr had enough strength, he would win this battle.
In the seventh round Klitschko again landed a couple of his jabs, but the African was unyielding. In the 9th round Klitschko's advantage was again noticeable, and Peter often missed... And again, after another clinch, which together with the jabs turned out to be the Ukrainian's main arsenal in this fight, at the end of the round Peter with his left again hit Klitschko's jaw.
The next round became the most alarming for Klitschko himself and his fans. Peter, realizing that he was losing on points, went forward like an African buffalo, ramming the Ukrainian and in the middle of the 10th round pressed Volodymyr to the ropes and with a punch through the arms hit Klitschko in the head, moving out of the corner of the ring Klitschko the younger received a right from Peter and fell to his knee and it was clear that Volodymyr was in serious trouble. The referee again started a count. Then Klitschko got lucky a second time, 22 seconds before the end of the round he managed to stay on his feet and not take a punch that could have been his last and the Ukrainian was again saved by the ring gong.
In the 11th round Klitschko managed to recover from Peter's powerful punch and in the middle of the round with a short left jab nearly sent Samuel to a knockdown, but he held on.
The last and final round took place in a mutual exchange of punches and Klitschko managed to finish this fight without taking any more punches. Then all three judges gave the advantage to the Ukrainian with the same score - 114:111.
So, Klitschko achieved his main goal, he won and now his next fight should be for the world champion title, where he became the mandatory challenger for a fight for the world champion title according to the IBF and WBO versions.
According to many experts - Peter is one of the strongest boxers in the heavyweight division, who had not lost before this fight, but he also had no outstanding victories. And although Klitschko never managed to send the Nigerian to the ring floor, which no boxer had done before, Volodymyr proved that he should not be written off prematurely. Klitschko went all 12 rounds and looked quite confident. The only problem is that Klitschko the younger again takes punches from which he was not far from a knockout. Although, after Peter's straight punches any boxer could have ended up on the ring floor.