By Victor Salazar

Less than wwo weeks ago at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Peter Quillin knocked down his opponent Andy Lee with a little over 15 seconds left in the first round in their fight. Quillin was cautious and then made Lee stumble with about 5 seconds left in the room but was unable to finish Lee. Had there been more time left in the round or pounced on his opponent earlier, some think he may have got the stoppage.

His trainer, Eric Brown agreed with the strategy Quillin employed of being cautious with Andy Lee.

“We has to be careful because we know what type of fighter Andy is,” Brown told BoxingScene.com “I’ve seen Andy take beatings for rounds and rounds and rounds then he knocks the guy out unconscious. As long as he’s able to get off the canvas, he’s always going to be dangerous. So you never just take for granted you can knock him out. Guys like that are more dangerous too when they’re hurt.

In the 7th round Quillin himself, tasted the canvas but Brown says he felt his man recovered quick.

“I could tell it was a flash knockdown. He was waiting for Andy, made Andy tried to commit and made Andy pay for it,” said the trainer.

The bout ended in a split draw and Brown feels his man put on a good performance for a fighter who was inactive for a year.

“I thought it was a very good performance,” stated Brown. ‘Unfortunately we had to take some time off and some of that was needed because he became a father. He’s grown as a man and I’m proud of him. Obviously you don’t want to have a fighter of that caliber out for too long but we’re back and we’ll stay in the gym, come back out and hopefully we’ll get in there again before the year’s out. We’d like to have two or three fights before years end.”