By SCott Gilfoid: Ricky Hatton believes Amir Khan should campaign to try and get his rematch with IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson in the UK rather than in the United States, like it would ever happen. Hatton, who is a close friend of Khan, obviously sees it as a sense of fairness because Khan went to Peterson’s home city to fight in Washington, DC.

There are too many things working against a Khan-Peterson rematch taking place in the UK: Golden Boy, HBO and Peterson.

Hatton told the BBC Sport “If I was Amir I would push for a rematch in my hometown, although that may be difficult.”

Yeah, I bet Hatton would like for the Khan-Peterson rematch to take place in the UK. I think Peterson would a knockout to win over there, because I can’t see him getting a decision in that place.

As of now, none of them want the fight to take place in England. I’m sure wants the fight there because he could pack the Wembley Arena with a massive horde of inebriated Brits singing songs, honking horns and screaming for Peterson’s blood. And Peterson would be kind of out there on his own and would have to deal with Khan’s fouling as best as he could without the help of a referee to keep Khan in jack. I’ve never see Khan get penalized for pushing off or his favorite tactic, pushing down on his opponents’ heads while he was fighting in the UK.

My advice is to say no to the UK as well as California. I’d also make sure none of Khan’s former referees work the rematch. We can’t have Joe Cortez trotted out for the fight, and then Peterson having problems working on the inside because Cortez breaks the action each time he tries to get started. It would be a nightmare for Peterson if the fight took place in the UK. Having a referee with a laissez-faire type of approach to controlling the fouling and poor Peterson would likely be shoved all around the ring and have his bent forward all night long. I suppose it could get worse than that. If Khan were to use the holding and hitting trick he used to stop Zab Judah, that would be even worse than the pushing and cranking down on the head.

Hatton doesn’t realize that Khan isn’t calling the shots here, Peterson is. Khan is just going to have to take what he can get in terms of a venue.