Evander Holyfield-Riddick Bowe II had “The Fan Man.”
Lamont Peterson-Amir Khan apparently has “The Mystery Man.”
Khan, whose split-decision loss to Peterson on Dece. 10 cost him the IBF and WBA junior welterweight belts, wants to know who the man was wearing a blue hat who appears to be distracting an official at ringside during the fight.
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“Who is this guy?” asks Khan. “And what was he doing?”
On Thursday, Khan posted a series of pictures on Twitter showing what he says is an unidentified man “interfering” with WBA fight supervisor Michael Welsh as Welsh scored the fight, according to the Associated Press.
Organizations assign their own official scorers to bouts as backup references, and WBA representative, Welsh, scored it a draw, while the IBF’s rep Paul Ortiz had it for Peterson.
Peterson edged Khan, 113-112 on the cards of judges George Hill of New Jersey and Valerie Dorsett of North Carolina, and lost,115-110 on that of Nelson Vazquez of Puerto Rico.
Khan already has cited poor officiating and scorecard descrepancies among the reasons he has appealed to the IBF and the WBA to overturn Peterson’s victory or else to order an immediate rematch.
