Amir Khan hopeful of overturning Lamont Peterson decision

Get khans **** out your mouth.

 

So the ref should have just kept warning Khan and not do anything about it?

You talk like Khan just suddenly had points deducted out of the blue. I could tell where it was heading from about round four - he could not get Peterson away from him so was pushing him backwards over and over again - and was frequently warned for it.

It's nothing to do with the ref being a twat - some of those pushes were real blatant two arm pushes and sent LP back a few feet, so the ref warned him - once he's warned him for an offence he can't just start ignoring it if it continues to happen, can he (THAT would have been bad refereeing). Khan pushed his luck until the ref had to act.

It doesn't have to be a Dirty fight to have points deducted - if one fighter wants to fight on the inside and one on the outside, it's unfair for the inside fighter to be prevented from executing his game plan because his opponent is repeatedly using a tactic which is against the rules. There are many legitimate ways to keep a fight at range and prevent someone coming inside - pushing, holding, forcing their head down and running backwards are used by people who do not know them.

I actually say this as someone who has followed Khans career from the Olympics and would love to see him achieve HUGE things in the sport. But I'm also a realist and in saturdays fight i saw a huge hole in Khan's game, holes he seems to be ignoring in favour of blaming everybody else.

 

Show me these instances where Peterson was ducking below Khan's waist. If it was happening as frequently as you say then it should be easy to do. If you can't then you're clearly talking horse ****.

 

Peterson probably wouldn't be stupid enough to ignore 15 warnings in the first place, If the roles were reversed completly i'd think peterson was a bit of a **** also.

 

This is probably true.

Depending on the nature of the deductions he might have a case.

But despite being in Peterson's back yard, he was technically the home fighter. He was billed as the attraction and it was promoted by GBP, who have no doubt invested a lot of money in him.

Agreed, apart from the bolded bit - if you mean appealing rather than having a little whinge. A whinge is fine.

Peterson isn't a clown by any means but he's not an elite fighter. Whether Khan won the fight or not (I scored it to Peterson) the performance as a whole left a lot to be desired.

:thumbsup

 

Would also like to see some examples. The fights on youtube if anyones wants to take some screen grabs. You've made some really good points in this thread.

 

Ali, forced his opponents heads down and leaned on them all the time. If it is good enough of the greatest, it is good enough for a mere mortal like Khan. Or maybe Ali didn't know these secret methods you speak of to keep at range.

 

Rules are rules and are there to be bent or broken, most boxers do this, the best are obviously better at it.

The point is the ref should have just let them fight instead of getting as involved as he did.

 

Poor from Khan. Let it go.

 

The referee tried letting them fight but Khan insisted on pushing.

Both deductions were a bit iffy, but it wasn't as if the referee just decided to take a point away for the sake of it, like Cortez did against Hatton in the Mayweather fight.

The shove in the 12th round is ridiculous, I've seen rugby scrums with less of a shove than that one.

If he's not going to attempt to fight inside he needs to become a lot smarter as to how to deal with it, shoving and/or running aren't the answer.

 

He didn't, which is why Joe Frazier beat him the first time. It was fouling when Ali did it, it was fouling when Lennox Lewis did it. But Ali only started doing that after his exile from boxing. Lewis didn't have much of an inside game but did have a nasty right uppercut - it never got excessive because he generally would work. And he was a ****ing sight more subtle than Khan with his reverse headlock.

 

Really? Seems convenient, however surely its irrelevant...

 

Well done Khan, good on you son! He doesn't conceal his dirty fighting in the ring, nor outside the ring! He's a dirty **** and proud! Bow down and kiss the Kings rings bitches!

Bollocks aside, he's saying "We have checked the rulebook, and pushing an opponent away does not carry a point deduction"

Can any ESB ambulance chasers follow that up?

 

Yes, well put, but in my opinion deducting 2 points isnt the answer either!

 

For ****s sake. This is why Khan will never be widely loved and respected.

The boy is annoying.

Take the ****ing rematch and deal with it.