• Amir Khan v Lamont Peterson controversy

Roach reveals past bust-up with 'mystery man'

ESPN staff
January 8, 2012
Freddie Roach trains Amir Khan, as well as Manny Pacquiao © Getty Images
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Amir Khan's trainer Freddie Roach has revealed he knows the 'mystery man' accused of interfering with the judges at ringside of Khan's fight against Lamont Peterson last month.

Khan has appealed the decision in his controversial points loss, and Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Khan's promoters, says the WBA has ordered a rematch. Schaefer also indentified the man under suspicion as Mustafa Ameen, an IBF official.

Now Roach has claimed that Ameen is not an official - and that he knows him personally, and has been involved in an altercation with him in the past.

"He comes to my gym," Roach told BBC Sport. "He came to the [US] Olympic training centre and I actually had him removed one time. I told the coaches, 'There's no need for him to be here'. He goes to gyms and talks to other people's fighters. But he does know the boundaries because he doesn't go after my fighters - but he does talk to other people's fighters and he's been told not to a couple of times, even here in my gym.

"[Ameen] has no credentials; he's not a member of any boxing organisation. There's no reason for him to be at ringside. Why he was ringside and why he was in the ring afterwards celebrating and so forth I have no idea."

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