Amir Khan- NEW WBA CHAMP!!!!

Girl: "nobody is going to buy this Amir" Amir: "Sure they are, just keep smiling"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/bo...t-champion-ahead-Lamont-Peterson-rematch.html

Amir Khan has been installed by the WBA as their super world champion at light welterweight.

Britain's former Olympic silver-medalist lost that title in his controversial defeat by Lamont Peterson in Washington in December but has been disputing the verdict ever since.


I guess this makes him a two-time champ!!! :bears:

Well done Amir!!!

 

Justice at last. Another black eye for boxing healed.

 

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Its Jeff Powell so I assume the story has some basis.

 

Rafael was reporting yesterday the WBA denies this

 

Huh

 

Nobody knows who the WBA champ is? Is this what its come to??

 

Oh...he's the "SUPER" World Champ. That clears it up.

 

Khan said he doesn't know if it's true or not but would rather win it in the ring and prove he's the better man.

 

If Khan would rather win it in the ring then he should have kept his mouth shut and forced a rematch legitimately.

How NOT to win friends and influence people.

 

His bitching and bad sportsmanship pissed me off as much as the next man but if he exercised a rematch clause then it was done legitimately

 

Y'all wanna kick a brown man while he's down. I realise that Khan is one of Ariza's rainbow serpents,.. but as it was convenient to shift to personality over principle when drug testing clauses were being bandied about, I tried to ignore my suspicious resentment, and scored the fight in favor of what has now become an unorthodox measure of factoring workrate x punches landed as the criteria to winning rounds?

For you see,..
:tick: Mormeck walked forwards too?

 

Bluddy Benchode

 

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Yeah thank goodness all that ambiguity is resolved

 

Let's get mikE in to talk us through why this is all for the good of the sport

 

It's a bullshit story that began with Khan as the source. Never happened, and the WBA shut it down the moment the bullshit news leaked out from Khan's camp. The WBA even stated the only way they'll take the belt from Peterson to give to him is if he actually beats Peterson on May 19.

Same story initially ran on Boxingscene early yesterday, but an immediate retraction was offered the moment the truth was confirmed. Guess the same doesn't apply across the pond.

 

Could be the time difference. Or it could just be sensationalism linked to the hair-trigger urge to drop their pants and lean over at the mere mention of Khan's name.

Eitherways the result of this fight looks more and more like a foregone conclusion. Khan seems to think so anyways. Why would he tweet he was champ??

“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.â€

 

Again.

 

Forcing a rematch legitimately is doing what it takes to get a rematch, yes? Would you rather he fought a few eliminators and asked nicely?

 

I'm glad it wasn't true. The way to fix the problem is with an immediate rematch. Fuckhead Joe Cooper didn't do anything illegal when he penalized Khan for wah wah pushing, but it was a bullshit, homer call that will legitimately hurt the sport in the future when it makes people afraid to leave their home country.

But if the WBA had done it, it's not like it's unprecedented. The WBC, for example, overturning the ref's call in Hopkins/Dawson.

 

Utter nonsense if this was true.

 

If this is true, then Khan deserves all the hate he gets.

 

First off, it's NOT true.

Second, if it were, why would Khan deserve all of the hate he gets, as opposed to... the WBA?

 

Get out of here with that. Khan makes "Lil Floyd", Bernard, "Lil Klit" and all the other "Pushers", look like pushing amateurs when compared to him.

He was warned dozens of times throughout the fight.

On the few occasions you could actually see him process the act of trying NOT to push off, he looked like a lost little puppy not knowing what to do next.

Khan could start spontaneously kickboxing in the middle of a fight, and he'd bitch and moan that the American ref was out to get him, as soon as points started being deducted.

 

How can you possibly compare Dawson/Hopkins to Peterson/Khan?

Peterson/Khan went all 12 rounds and was scored by three judges. The referee's influence on the outcome (overofficiating) led to the WBA's decision to mandate a rematch, but not nullify the result altogether.

Dawson/Hopkins didn't even last two rounds, ended on a TKO even though no particular punch caused the end of the fight. It was a judgment call by the ref that ended the fight, was reviewed first by the WBC and then by the CSAC, both of which saw the same thing - that the ref made the wrong call. To his credit, the referee himself admitted as much during the CSAC hearing.

Big, BIG difference between the two, so yes it would've been unseemly and completely whimsical for the WBA to have stripped Peterson of the title.

 

The ref was unequivocal in determining that Dawson did not foul Hopkins. It was clear that the majority believed it to be a foul so he retracted. However, prior to that the WBC had already said they were going to 'consider' it to be an NC and let Hopkins keep their belt. Isn't this all true?

I think there is legitimate justification for making Dawson the TKO winner over Hopkins if you believe that Dawson's actions did not constitute a foul under the circumstances. Dawson didn't put Hopkins on his back, he dumped him off and Hopkins seemingly faked an(other) injury.

Cooper's call also was questionable. To my knowledge, no one has ever come up with a similar example of a fighter being penalized for pushing off as Khan did in the HISTORY of boxing.

Both calls were arguably incorrect and both could have resulted in the sanctioning body trying to 'fix' the problem by not recognizing the official verdict.

 

Perhaps if you have never watched boxing.

 

I have watched boxing.

 

Perhaps if you see a man cheat. I saw Bernard the next day, his shoulder was working perfectly, I saw him use it over and over and over and over again. Fuck Bernard and fuck anyone thick enough and self-harming enough to buy a ticket to one of his "Historic" "Fights".

 

Odd that you could see anything other than a NC in that case.

 

Yeah but do you "Really Love It" like our boy Stephen_David???

You know, love it as in masochistically worship at the Altar of Hopkins The Historic?