Khan should blame the judges more so than the ref.........

Gooners2 · Dec 11, 2011

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Ref did a **** job. Plain and simple. In a rough fight a ref should either shut the horse play down on both sides or let it go. Peterson, I'll give him credit was alot more slick about it but he was rough housing all night. He was shouldering Khan all night. Putting forarms in his face. And even posted an open fist into Khan's face a couple of times without ever getting a warning. Stevie ****ing Wonder could see Khan was mainly fouling in retaliation to Peterson`s rough tatics. Some of them were just Ricky Hatton style brawling tatics that I got no problem with. But a lot of the time he was clearly fouling. I understand and can live with the first point deduction cause several warnings were given. But before the ref took the second point he should have warned Peterson, which many have eased the pressure on khan and resulted in him fouling less. At the very least he should have given Khan a warning. No warning to either guy, that was crap and Khan lost his title because of it.
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The ref didn't do a good job, no doubt about that, but he also wasn't being more favourable to Peterson based on the point deductions. Why did he give a KD that wasn't if that was the case?

I did't see any blatent fouling by Peterson. Infact if anything, Khan set the tone by putting his elbow into Peterson's throat, then trying to hit him with the other hand. The ref allowed that to happen and didn't say anything. Also, Khan consciously pulls fighters head down, he's done it in a lot of other fights. It allows him to get off first and not have to worry about getting countered, cause if he misses and leaves himself open for a counter he can pull the guys head down so he cant take advantage of the situation. Khan was literally pushing Peterson off to, another tactic that is illegal. He was doing that because he couldn't handle Peterson from in that range so wanted to push him back outside. Khan did most of the holding to stop Peterson working inside to. I mean he turned his back how many times, or looked at the ref with puppy dog eyes thinking he was going to get some sanctuary from the ref.

The first point deduction was wrong though. The second was actually legit. He WAS holding excessively at that point to STOP Peterson from working him over inside.

Khan lost his title because of poor officiating by the judges. The KD wasn't legit, neither was the first foul, and so that squares things up, but the second point deduction was fully deserved.

Ripper11 · Dec 11, 2011

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Cause to my eyes it was Khan who had his forearm in Peterson's throat and proceeded to hit him with a right hand. It was Khan who was literally pushing Peterson off him at times to get the fight back at his required distance, it was Khan who was holding inside, it was Khan who kept pulling Peterson's head down. Khan's complaining to the ref amounts to the fact Peterson was allowed to get on his chest and bang him to expose his lack of inside game. That's what all this moaning about the ref equates to. Khan wanted a ref who was gonna break them up when Peterson was on his chest, that's why he was looking at the ref with that distressed look on his face as if to say "separate us ref", or like Peterson was doing something Illegal.

So Khan had two points taken, one of them was legit imo. He was holding excessively down the stretch of the fight to stop Peterson working inside. As for the first, the KD wasn't legit so that squares things up in my eyes.

I dont think Peterson won, but Khan blaming the ref and acting like mother Teresa, like HE was fighting clean, is all BS IMO. He's trying to marginalize the fact he was't able to handle Peterson when on the inside.
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how I saw it also

pejevan · Dec 11, 2011

One judge obviously changed his scorecard in round 7.

George H. H scorecard seem to have a 10 in khan's column then crossed out and replaced by 8. If khan was deducted point in that round, would it be just a 9 instead of 8. Likewise, it seemed like Peterson had 9 then scribbled out to make a 0 and 1 was added beside it to make it 10. If he scored it based on principle, the original scorecard of 113-112 in favor of Peterson would actually be a draw.

WildStyle · Dec 11, 2011

Actually, Roach is to blame, for not telling him to pay attention to what the ref was telling him.

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