By Chris Williams: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson is considering offers made to him by Top Rank for a fight against Juan Manuel Marquez for July, and an offer made by Golden Boy Promotions for a rematch against Amir Khan, according to RingTV.

Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, told RingTV “[We] offered [Peterson] $1.5 million and we offered him a 50-50 split for the world-wide revenues,” for a fight against Khan.

Golden Boy’s offer could bring Peterson a payday close to $2 million and that’s probably going to be more than the offer that Bob Arum makes from Top Rank. However, if Peterson is able to beat Marquez then he’d likely be fighting Manny Pacquiao in November in a fight that would pay Peterson as much as $3 million or possibly more.

Golden Boy can’t beat that. But then again, Peterson could have a really hard time beating the counter punching Marquez in Texas.
Barry Hunter, the trainer/manager for Peterson, told RingTV “That was the first time that we [Golden Boy] had any type of dialogue, Richard and I, among one another, since a week after the fight…It’s a start.”

That sounds like Hunter likes the offer from Golden Boy. Arum will be speaking with Peterson and Hunter tomorrow about his offer, and it’s likely that Arum may sweeten his offer in order to try and match or top Schaefer’s offer to Peterson. Arum can’t have his four fighter tournament without Peterson, because he’s a got a key role in the tourney due to the cache he’s got right now from his exciting win over Khan last December.

There isn’t anyone that can match that in the light welterweight division and I don’t think Arum wants to pick a dangerous welterweight like Andre Berto or Victor Ortiz for his four fighter tourney. Those guys would have a reasonable chance of beating Pacquiao the way he’s fighting now and that would put a big crimp in Arum’s eventual plans in matching Pacquiao against Mayweather. Sure, Arum could still pit Pacquiao with Mayweather, but it won’t be the same if Pacquiao gets picked off by someone like Berto or Ortiz before he makes that fight.