Amir Khan: The WBA still have me as WBA Super Champion – Boxing News
Amir Khan, former WBA (Super) & IBF Light Welterweight Champion, surprised the global boxing community by his recent claim that the WBA has reinstated him as the WBA super lightweight ‘super’ champion in place of Lamont Peterson. Amir made his claims through
his Twitter account and his web page.
Khan’s tweet read, “Great news WBA still have me as WBA Super Champion! I will be putting that title on the line on May 19th against Peterson.”
Khan did not stop with his claims there, he also notified his fans through his web page saying, and “I’ve just been relaxing and doing other work away from the ring since my fight last December with Lamont Peterson. As you all know the rematch has been agreed
but something you might not know is that I will be going into the ring as the WBA ‘Super’ Champion. I’m really looking forward to putting my WBA ‘super’ title on the line against Peterson, who will enter the ring as the IBF world champion.”
Peterson defeated Khan in Washington DC on 10 December 2011 by split decision. The decision soon became controversial since 2 points in rounds 7 and 12 were deducted from Khan’s final score by referee Joe Cooper for pushing and pulling. The decision made
Khan furious and since then he, along with his promotional partners, has tried his level best to either reverse the decision or get an immediate rematch. He could not succeed in getting the decision reversed but he surely got his hands on a rematch for May
19 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Khan had filed a protest with the WBA and IBF. The WBA ordered an immediate rematch while Khan withdrew the petition in IBF and instead offered Peterson a rematch with 50/50 split.
It should be noted here that the WBA has rejected Khan’s claims saying that Peterson is still the WBA champion on their website and in their records. Nothing is sure yet as to why Khan did this. Maybe it was his yet another media trick to get public attention
or maybe he was just trying to irk Peterson.
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