At a teleconference shortly after he forwarded fees to the IBF and WBA to file a formal protest on behalf of Amir Khan, the loser in a December 10 fight against Lamont Peterson in Washington, DC, Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, said some bizarre things about the way the scorecards were handled. Here is a portion of those remarks, excerpted form the actual transcript:
?So the Commission keeps the master score sheet, so does the WBA, and so does the IBF.. Therefore the results would be the same, right, because they all use the same information. Well shockingly it was not, it was different. It was the same for the scorecard of Nelson Vasquez, who had it for Khan, and it was the same for Valerie Dorsett, who had it for Peterson, but somehow George Hill?s card had it a draw. Therefore the WBA showed on their card that the fight was a draw.
??.Now what happened with the IBF card, with the IBF master score card? It was gone after the fight. Funny enough, it disappeared. When I talked to Lindsey Tucker on Monday morning, Lindsey Tucker is the IBF official, I asked him what happened, he said that the IBF supervisor who was there for the fight told him that it disappeared, that it seems to him that the District of Columbia took it while he was in the ring presenting Peterson with the belt.
Then suddenly two days ago, an IBF scorecard appeared. It looks as it was made up after the fact, no question about it or was made about, yeah, two days. The printing was way too neat and consistent, not consistent with what usually a scorecard looks like.?
Later came the introduction of a so-called ?mystery man? wearing a hat at ringside, who was, for some reason, talking to Michael Walsh, the WBA supervisor for the fight, with both men looking at something that could very well be the master score sheet Schaefer was referring to.
And so we now had the makings of a controversy-within-a-controversy.
