Boxing scandal has happy ending?
Amir Khan Lamont Peterson during their WBA Super Lightweight and IBF Junior Welterweight title fight at Washington Convention Center on December 10, 2011 in Washington, DC.
Amir Khan is a sporting hero in Britain. An Olympic silver medalist at the age of 17 and world light welterweight champion by the time he was 22. The son of Pakistani immigrants and a Muslim, he has ridden through the difficult currents of multi-cultural life in this country and pursued his success single-mindedly while doing good work in his community.
In December he lost a fight on points that supposed to unify the WBA and IBF light welterweight titles in Washington DC. His opponent was a DC hometown fighter named Lamont Peterson. Almost immediately Khan claimed that the judging had been fishy.
Boxers claiming to have been robbed by crooked judges are a dime a dozen but Khan released some video that seemed to back his claim. Look here, what do you think?
Anyway, the WBA has ordered a re-match immediately. The IBF is still thinking about it.
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