Peter McNeeley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter McNeeley

American boxer

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1968

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: boxer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Peter McNeeley (born October 6, 1968) is an American former heavyweight boxer, best known for his 1995 fight with Mike Tyson, before which McNeeley had said he would wrap Tyson in a "cocoon of horror." McNeeley fought aggressively but was knocked down twice within the first two minutes.
McNeeley was disqualified after his manager Vinnie Vecchione stepped into the ring to stop his fighter from taking any more punishment after the second knockdown.
TV Guide included the fight in their list of the 50 Great TV Sports Moments of All Time in 1998.Jack Newfield of The Nation called McNeeley just "another manufactured white hope with a fake résumé." McNeeley's handpicked opponents had a combined record of 301 defeats in 422 fights.
They had already been knocked out a total of 132 times before facing McNeeley.
In words of Jack Newfield, "they were a bunch of drug-rehab refugees, retired fighters, out-of-shape bouncers and tomato cans who worked day jobs,"McNeeley's infamous career wasn't a unique case of such order, with LaMar Clark being his predecessor in the early 1960s, Faruq Saleem and Richie Melito being his successors in the late 1990s.