Hatman = Mustafa Ameen

Set for the rematch :happy:happy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-2083475/Amir-Khan-mystery-man-named.html

 

The man at the middle of the latest controversy involving the fight between Amir Khan and Lamont Peterson has been named by the Briton's promoters as IBF employee Mustafa Ameen.

It has also emerged that Golden Boy Promotions have ordered a rematch between the two.

Peterson claimed a controversial points win in the light-welterweight title fight in Washington last month, after Khan was docked two points for pushing. The Khan camp was furious, with the young Briton launching an appeal.

This latest development was reported by Sky on Saturday morning, two days after Khan posted a series of images of the fight on Twitter, where he questioned the identity of man at ringside. The man is seen making contact with WMA supervisor Michael Welsh.

Richard Schaefer, chief executive officer of Golden Boy Promotions, has now named the mystery man.

'His name is Mustafa Ameen and the IBF have confirmed to us his name, and they have confirmed to us that he's involved in an official capacity with the IBF,' Schaefer told Sky.

'However, he was not in Washington in an official IBF capacity, but the IBF asked the Washington commission to issue him a credential so that he could attend the fight.'

Schaefer also claimed that the WBA have offered Khan a rematch with the American, and urged the IBF to follow suit.

'We have been informed today by the WBA that they will order an immediate rematch,' he said. 'We received a verbal confirmation today and we will get a written confirmation by next Tuesday.

'That means that no fighter can take an interim fight, that the next fight for Peterson would be a rematch.

'We hope that the IBF will follow because that's the least they can do. The ruling of the WBA to order an immediate rematch should put additional pressures on the IBF.'

He is also hopeful that the outcome of the fight will be changed to 'no contest', allowing Khan to retain his belts, but said: 'It's difficult to guess the no-contest ruling. I certainly hope this could happen.'

WBA president Gilberto Mendoza had earlier spoken openly about his hopes the two fighter would meet again, saying: 'It generates a lot of controversy. There should be a rematch. The [Washington DC] Commission did not behave properly in this fight.'

Khan and his team were left bemused by the long delay between the fight ending and the result being announced in the American capital, and the fact that judge George Hill's scorecard appeared to have been amended with regards to the seventh round.

 

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