By William Mackay: World Boxing Association vice president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza reportedly is looking into former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s twitter complaints about a mystery man seen talking with one of the judges during the Khan vs. Lamont Peterson bout last December at ringside in Washington, DC.

Khan is crying foul and sees something sinister in all of this in terms of the judges’ scorecards and feels that he should be made the winner of the fight. The presence of the mystery man wearing a hat could be just what Khan needed for him to either get his loss overturned with him given a win, a no contest or have the WBA and IBF order an immediate rematch with Peterson. Peterson is already leaning in the direction of giving Khan an immediate rematch anyway, as he’s not likely to get the big money fight that he’s been wanting against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and other than that fight, Khan is the biggest payday out there for him.

But the IBF or WBA could even go further by erasing Peterson’s win, which would be a black eye for boxing because he fought well enough to deserve the win and he wasn’t fouling all night like Khan was.

Khan has had a hard time accepting his defeat and doesn’t recognize that he did anything wrong by shoving Peterson throughout the fight to escape his inside pressure. The referee took two points away from Khan for his repeated shoving, although he didn’t take any points away from him for what appeared to be a bigger problem with Khan grabbing Peterson’s head and pulling down on it on a frequent basis. The referee also gave Khan credit for a knockdown in the 1st where Khan didn’t land a punch. Khan shoved Peterson to the canvas with an elbow and the referee scored it a knockdown.

Incredibly, Khan has no problems with getting credit for that knockdown, and he also thinks he should have gotten credit for a slip earlier in the round where Peterson tripped over one of referee Joe Cooper’s legs while backing up. It seems Khan complains when it benefits him but fails to see the things he did wrong in the fight. The knockdown was bogus, and Khan’s problems with fouling Peterson were very real. He’s got to learn how to fight without shoving, pulling down on his opponents’ heads and grabbing then in headlocks.