By William Mackay: It was both interesting and quite sad to see Amir Khan’s promoter Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, trying to explain away Khan’s recent losses to Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia at today’s London press conference. Schaefer tried to say that Khan doesn’t have a problem with taking hard shots, and instead blamed it on the placement of the left hook that Garcia hit Khan with in the third round of their fight last July. Khan ended up getting knocked out in the 4th round after getting knocked down three separate times.
As for Khan’s loss to Peterson, Schaefer brought up the mystery man with the hat that sat at the scorers table during a portion of the fight, as if this changed what happened in the fight.