AMIR KHAN STUNNED BY LAMONT PETERSON DEFEAT

Amir Khan went down to a shock points defeat by Lamont Peterson to lose his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles in a pulsating fight in Washington DC, BBC News reported. Two points deducted from Khan for pushing proved crucial as the judges scored the fight at 113-112, 113-112, 111-114 in favour of the local fighter. The Briton knocked Peterson down in the first round, but the American launched huge attacks in the third and seventh. Khan recovered, but the second lost point in the final round was decisive. "It was like I was against two people in there - the referee and Lamont himself," complained Khan immediately after the decision. "Every time he was coming into me he kept putting his head low. I was the cleaner fighter - he was so wild in there. "I had to push him away because his head was coming so low." Talk before the fight centred around the 25-year-old Khan's desire to move up to welterweight, with the Bolton fighter frustrated in his attempts to secure light-welterweight unification bouts with WBC champion Timothy Bradley and WBO title-holder Erik Morales. The former Olympic silver medallist has spoken of his desire to meet Floyd Mayweather at 147lbs but those hopes now seem set to be placed on hold after this demoralising defeat.

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