Amir Khan in no mood of accepting any apologies from Lamont Peterson
Saturday, May 19th, 2012 3:54:34 by Imran Shaukat Khan
The Bolton’s finest boxer Amir Khan lost his WBA (Super) and IBF light welterweight titles to Lamont Peterson on December 10 last year, in a fight which ended up in a storm of controversy. However, now he is likely to get his titles back because the American has failed to the random drug testing ahead of their rematch.
Peterson recently had an interview with East Side Boxing, in which he apologised to Khan. Though Peterson claimed that he didn’t take any drugs, he said he feels sorry for Khan as he couldn’t give him a chance to get his titles back.
Nevertheless, Khan is in no mood to accept any apologies. The Brit not long ago made an appearance on BBC Radio 5 Live and he said that he will not accept any apologies from Peterson at all because his life was at risk while fighting him.
“It will take more than an apology for what happened last December, my life was at risk. One punch can change a fighter’s life,” Khan said.
Khan, who is more commonly known as King Khan, knocked down Peterson twice in the first round but still Peterson came back strong on him.
Khan now says he knew there was something wrong with Peterson.
Khan said, “The way he kept coming forward after he was put down twice in the first round, the way he was recovering, I knew this was not the same Lamont Peterson I had been watching in videos, this guy was totally different. It was like fighting two people in the ring. I was hurting him and putting him down and he was still coming forward.”
He remarked, ”I have fought big punchers like Marcos Maidana and other names out there and he seemed to punch harder, be a lot fitter than them. It just shows that performance enhancing drugs do make a difference and I saw the difference. He should be punished for what he did.”
Well, all said and done, let’s see if Amir Khan really gets his WBA (Super) and IBF tittles back.
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Posted by Imran Shaukat Khan
on May 19 2012. Filed under Sports.
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You just know that if it was khan who got a gift hometown decision, people would blow up about it. But when Peterson does it is a brilliant upset, and that khan should stop crying robbery. And when Peterson gets caught for PEDs, they were apparently for “medical” use and he just didn’t tell the commission. But if khan tried that flimsy excuse, fans would demand that he should relinquish his belt. Khan deserves to be at the top of the light-welterweight rankings, but too bad everyone has their head to far up their ass to see that.
Amir suppose to get his title back with dignity. Lamont should be punished as per rules.