By William Mackay: Earlier tonight, Golden Boy Promotions and Team Khan announced that they would be dropping their appeal to the IBF to get Amir Khan’s loss overturned from his fight with Lamont Peterson last month.

Although Golden Boy said that it was due to not all of the officials being available for the previously scheduled meeting tomorrow (January 18th), it seems as if things might not have gone Khan and Golden Boy’s way in the meeting.

Rather than attend the meeting and possibly see their appeal rejected, Team Khan and Golden Boy opted to drop the appeal and try a different strategy by offering Peterson a straight up 50-50 split of the worldwide revenue, plus Khan’s UK television pay per view money.

That’s not a bad deal given that Khan is the one that brings in the most money due to his high paying contract with HBO and Sky Sports. 50-50 deal may sound bad to some people, who would think it unfair that Khan should receive a 50-50 deal when he’s not even the champion at this time. Khan is still bringing in the big money here and a 50-50 deal shows you how badly Khan wants the rematch.

Dan Rafael of ESPN is reporting that Peterson’s attorney Jeff Fried has already received the 50-50 revenue offer from Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, and Fried is going to talk to Peterson’s manager Barry Hunter about the offer. Fried said that a rematch between Khan and Peterson would be good in Washington, DC, but with neutral judges and referee. This is interesting because Khan already said he’ll never fight in Washington, DC again after losing to Peterson by a 12 round split decision last month.

Khan thinks he got robbed in the fight because he had two points taken off for his shoving, and felt he should have gotten credit for a second knockdown in the 1st round where he was seen elbowing Peterson to the canvas. Khan also had issues with the scorecards, the scoring and with the mystery man, Mastafa Ameen, sitting with WBA supervisor Michael Welsh during a portion of the fight.

Would Khan fight Peterson in Washington, DC again? I kind of doubt it. I think he would be paranoid about getting ripped off from the judges or having a referee that prevents him from shoving Peterson and/or pulling down on his head.

If Washington, DC is all Khan can get, I think he’ll walk away and look to fight someone else rather than face a hostile environment for a second time. Khan found out the hard way that it’s not easy being the visiting fighter because the crowd goes against you, and referees don’t let you get away with the kinds of stuff that home refs let you get away with. Khan would likely be alright as long as he could keep himself from fouling, but if he goes back into his old bag of fouling tricks, then he’ll lose more points and it could cost him the fight.