Peter Dobson

Bio

Right then. Peter 'Pistol Pete' Dobson is the Bronx-bred awkward welterweight who's spent the last five years being everyone's nightmare style match-up and almost no one's easy night. Seventeen wins, three losses, all of the defeats by close decision, and a face that suggests he's never been to a press conference he didn't want to argue at.

Dobson came up the New York amateur scene proper — Gleason's Gym, the Apollo, the Daily News Golden Gloves. He turned pro late and built quietly, taking the right step-ups at the right times. His losses are to operators — close splits each time, two of which boxing forums still argue about — and his wins include hard nights against names who later went on to fight for world titles.

Make no mistake — he's not a one-shot finisher. Ten KOs from seventeen wins is honest. What he does well is land straight punches off a high guard, lean on the inside, and force the other man to fight uglier than he wants to. He's on the Davis vs Albright II card on May 16 in Norfolk, ten rounds against Kelvin Davis, and Friday's weigh-in face-off told you everything about the temperature this one's going to start at.