WBA agrees to Amir Khan’s rematch

A man in a hat is seen interfering with grey haired fight supervisor Michael Welsh during Amir Khan's controversial loss to Lamont Peterson (Pic: The Guardian)

According to Amir Khan’s promoter, Amir Khan has been guaranteed a rematch by the World Boxing Association (WBA) with Lamont Peterson after the mystery man sitting next to the judges during the British fighter's defeat last month was identified as Mustafa Ameen, an International Boxing Federation official.

Amir Khan lost his WBA super-lightweight and IBF light-welterweight crowns to Lamont Peterson on December 10 in Washington, DC. The mystery man who was pointed out by Amir, was an official of International Boxing Federation. His name is Mustafa Ameen but he was not in Washington in an official IBF capacity.

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, who represents Khan in the United States, said that the WBA have offered Khan a rematch with Peterson and pressed the IBF to follow suit.

“We have been informed by the WBA that they will order an immediate rematch,” he said. “We received a verbal confirmation today (Jan 7) and we will get a written confirmation by next Tuesday. That means that no fighter can take an interim fight, that the next fight for Peterson would be a rematch.”

“We hope that the IBF will follow because that's the least they can do. The ruling of the WBA to order an immediate re-match should put additional pressures on the IBF.”

The IBF are due to hear Khan's appeal against the result on January 18 and do not plan on making any comment until then.

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