• Amir Khan appeal

Khan points finger in fresh Peterson claim

ESPN staff
January 5, 2012

Amir Khan has reopened the debate over his defeat to Lamont Peterson by accusing an unidentified man of "interfering" with the judges at ringside.

Khan suffered a controversial points defeat to Peterson in Washington last month to surrender his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles. The Brit's camp lodged an appeal against the decision, unhappy with the performance of referee Joe Cooper - who deducted two points from Khan for pushing - and alleged irregularities with the scorecards.

The appeal is set be heard this month but Khan has waded in again, taking to Twitter to question the role of a man at ringside, claiming the individual should not have been talking to fight supervisor Michael Welsh.

Khan posted on Twitter, in a series of messages: "Watch the fight from 9.10 seconds of this video there is a guy wearing a grey suit with a blue shirt wearing a hat"

"Sat on the main judges panel at the front on the right hand side 3rd to the end"

"No one knows who this guy is and he is now being asked to move by Michael Walsh [understood to be Michael Welsh] who is the main supervisor for the WBA as he should be sat there"

"He now gets a chair and sits slightly infront of @OscarDeLaHoya and my father"

"At the beginning of round 2 he manages to squeeze in at the front again sat next to Michael Walsh"

"Now the IBF and the WBA have still not confirmed who this guy is till this date and what he was doing there.. Now the interesting part"

"Now this guy doesn't do anything apart from watching the fight but that's only until round 6 when he starts to interfere!"

"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"

"This is what I meant on how he was interfeering, as no one is allowed according to the rules to touch the scorescards or even talk to the judges 'n commision during the fight"

"There are 3 judges in a fight 'n all have different colour slips, 'n at the end of every round they 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"

"And this guy does it again at the beginning of round 7,' n carries on throughout all the way to the end of the fight. wtf?"

"Again in round 8 and round 9, clearly 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've read in some articles and people have also told me that after the fight Michael Walsh the guy in the red tie apparently said his score cards didn't match up to the others, it wasn't fair and he looked really scared and he was told to butt out and there was nothing he could do. Since then no one has heard from him"

"I want Michael Walsh to come out and speak out about what was going on, it's only right and fair to do so"

"Heres a close-up pic. The question is.. Who is this guy? And what was he doing? I'm sure someone out there knows"

Linking to a video of the full fight, Khan adds: "watch here for yourselves round 6-12 will be interesting if we finally get our answer"

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