Champion Lamont Peterson and British Boxer Amir Khan held a press conference at the W Hotel in Washington D.C., Thursday afternoon, announcing a boxing rematch between World Champion Lamont Peterson facing former Two-Time World Champion Amir Khan called “Peterson vs. Khan II: No Doubt” on May 19 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Super Lightweight World Champion Lamont Peterson displayed his WBA and IBF belts, which Two-Time World Champion Amir Khan’s once worn before the downfall December 10, 2011 fight, causing it to get striped away from the former champ. At the December 10th Peterson vs. Khan fight, Khan is claiming that a major call by referee Joe Cooper was unfair. Khan feels as though Peterson had a home turf advantage. Peterson was born and raised in D.C. Also, Peterson was once homeless at an early age in Washington D.C, and Khan believes that Peterson had a huge advantage over the former champion. After several negotiation and calls between team Peterson and team Khan, Peterson team agreed to Khan’s pleads for a rematch.
“It’s been burning me for a real long time that’s why I want this fight as soon as possible. I want to thank him and his team for accepting this fight. It was hard to negotiate to get the fight on but at the end we did get the fight and it’s going to be another terrific, explosive fight. We are both at our peeks we’re young and that’s what made the first fight great and the second one will be even better.” said Amir Khan.”
Fans at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas as well as those watching around the world on HBO and SKY, will see one of boxing’s most intense grudge matches when the two boxers fight in a highly anticipated rematch of their December 10, 2011 fight. Khan is putting everything into this fight to win back his belt. While Peterson just wants everyone to know that maybe this time around team Khan will accept the fact that he won fair and square.
“I’m a little up set with some fans and media for entertaining anything that Khan says when you can clearly look at the tape, at any view, at any time, sound on or sound off and see that he fouled. A lot of people don’t know some of the damage that he had done by fouling me but at the end of the day he was fouled and nothing shady happened in D.C,” said Lamont Peterson
The “Peterson vs. Khan II: No Doubt” showdown in Vegas tickets are priced at $300, $200, $150, $100 and $50 for purchase at the Mandalay Box office and all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations. Also tickets are available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.com or www.mandaylaybay.com. “More than half of UK fans have bought tickets, it looks like it’s going to be a UK audience, unless more American’s purchase tickets. Don’t let UK take over in Vegas come May 19th.” says Kevin Flaherty President of HBO.
If you are unable to attend “Peterson vs. Khan II: No Doubt” showdown, the fight will also be broadcast live on HBO World Champion Boxing on May 19th from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas at 10:45 p.m. ET/7:45 p.m.
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