By Dominic Sauboorah: What a shame. Boxing has really gone down hill. In boxing nowadays a fight is judged based on aggressiveness and determination. Sorry. This isn’t a wrestling match. This isn’t the MMA. This is a boxing match, where punches matter.

I confess that throughout most of the fight IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s) took a barrage of punches. Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) however resorted to street fighter tactics in order for him to get his punches off. Peterson, fighting in his own back yard, showed just how much mental strength he actually has. All that hype from his home crowd causing him to go wild to try and win the world titles. He clearly couldn’t hack the pressure.

Constantly in that fight we saw Khan pushing Peterson away, but did Khan have much choice? Peterson constantly went in head first like a complete lunatic who had clearly forgotten that boxing is a sport and a business, not a mental health clinic with the patients going wild because they forgot to take their daily pills. Khan was forced to push Peterson’s head down and generally push him back. Nevertheless I honestly believe, based on the boxing rules, that Khan deserved the point deductions that came his way, due to the fact that what he was doing was technically illegal.

Watch the fight over again. The only success that Peterson was able to muster was when he had Khan up against the ropes… with his elbow. Now as far as I’m aware, that’s illegal. Peterson was seen doing this countless times in the fight yet got no points deducted. He also measured Khan up for size by putting his left hand in front of Khan’s face and then landing with the right hand, which is again considered illegal. But let’s give credit to the referee who was clearly blind not to realize the obliviousness of Peterson’s actions and too mentally slow to bother to ever call break when Peterson was clinching Khan, not the other way around.

Peterson proved he’s a street fighter, but this was a boxing match. He landed punches by cheating in my opinion. He was able to be aggressive by cheating. He won the fight by cheating. This is a dark day for boxing and I’m sure Khan will come back, take those titles from him and prove that if you’re in the sport to be a boxer, then you have to fight like one. Lamont Peterson. One of the worst unified world champions in the history of boxing.