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07-Jan-2012
The News
LONDON: Britain’s Amir Khan took to Twitter on Thursday night as he stepped up his complaints over his world title defeat by Lamont Peterson in Washington last month.
He told his followers on the social networking site he was particularly concerned by the presence of an unknown man in a hat at ringside, who he claimed was talking to bout supervisor Michael Walsh, in contravention of a rule that states no one should speak to officials while a fight is in progress.
Khan lost his International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Association (WBA) titles to Peterson in a close points decision, with referee Joe Cooper taking two points away from Khan for pushing.
Without that deduction, Khan would have kept his titles and there was further controversy over the unusually long delay that ensued between the final bell and the announcement of the judges’ scorecards.
Khan’s appeal against his defeat is due to be heard later this month. In the meantime, the 26-year-old took expressed his latest concerns with a series of tweets and links to video footage of the fight.
“Sat on the main judges panel at the front on the right hand side 3rd to the end... From round 6 all the way through to round 12 this guy starts to interfere with what Michael Walsh is doing and they are both not watching the fight, watch the video and have a look for yourselfs (sic),” Khan posted.
“No one is allowed according to the rules to touch hold the scorescards or even talk to the judges on commission during the fight. There are 3 judges in a fight n all have different colour slips, n at the end of evry round thy get passed on to the wba, ibf n dc commission.
“This pic shows here in round 6 the guy wearing the hat clearing picks up one of the judges white slips n if you watch the video slides it down and towards him.”
Khan added: “Again in round 8 and round 9, cleary not watching the fight at all and not allowing Michael Walsh to watch too.
“This time in round 11 he’s seen here clearly picking up a yellow judges slip.. Strictly againts the rules. “I want Michael Walsh to come out and speak out about what was going on, it’s only right and fair to do so. “The question is.. Who is this guy? And what was he doing? I’m sure someone out there knows.” |
