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Amir Khan: WBA prepared to sequence marvellous rematch opposite Lamont Peterson

A male in a shawl is seen interfering with grey haired quarrel administrator Michael Welsh during Amir Khan’s argumentative detriment to Lamont Peterson (Pic: Lockerz)

The World Boxing Association is prepared to sequence a marvellous rematch of Amir Khan’s argumentative detriment to Lamont Peterson.

Khan has been bitterly dissapoint by a steer of a poser male held on camera during final month’s quarrel in Washington DC, who, he claims, tampered with scorecards.

And now WBA vice-president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza says a light welterweight hitch – where Khan mislaid his WBA and IBF universe pretension belts – should be restaged.


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He said: “There should be a approach rematch of this fight. You have to pledge fairness, we have to pledge that no one who isn’t directly concerned can lay during a table.”

In a film of what happened during ringside, a male in a black shawl and a blue fit can be seen flitting slips of paper to WBA quarrel administrator Michael Welsh.

But no one – including a DC Boxing and Wrestling Commission – has nonetheless been means to endorse his identity.

Mendoza laid a censure for a doubt on a internal commission.

He added: “There was not a correct confidence in a arena, generally in a ringside section where a elect sits. The elect did not act scrupulously in this quarrel in seeking a firmness that indispensable to be there.”

The International Boxing Federation, who co-sanctioned a fight, had no central criticism to make forward of an IBF conference into a quarrel on Jan 18.

Ibf open family executive Jeanette Salazar said: “At this indicate in time we have been suggested by a lawyers not to pronounce out in sequence to keep a firmness of a hearing.”

Peterson’s manager Barry Hunter slammed Khan for creation excuses. He said: “Before this guy, this poser man, it was about a referee, it was about a judges, what next?”

But Khan has vowed not to behind down, saying: “The whole universe thinks we merit a rematch. we we was treated unfairly.

“I wish another possibility somewhere neutral to infer we am a genuine champion and we won a fight.”

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