And new!? Khan vs Peterson .. afterthoughts

[KananKrus]

It was a pretty even fight with neither fighter establishing supremacy over the other.

Fighters, British Amir Khan, and Washington DC's Lamont Peterson, negated each other's tactics to preventing a foothold of each other's strategy to dominate and shape the character of the match.

The stick and jab, flurry of combinations employed by Khan almost made the fight his, had Peterson found no antidote. The American though countered with effectivity, the close quarter banging that he was able to impose on the fight. Referee tolerant, this tactic had Khan facing dire difficulty. Absorbing Peterson's phone booth body attack was not an issue he was cool to accept, and his only response was to push off when conditioning would no longer support evasive maneuvers in his arsenal of angles and quick counters.

With a little help in the form of a favorable officiating, given as a home court advantage, Lamont was able to cause Amir to incur a two-point deduction gifts; from pushing off infractions, which was enough to put him on top to an otherwise evenly contested encounter.

It sucks that the referee dashed his flavor in this Peterson win, making it hollow to some on that regard.

However marginal it was, the more dominant fighter really was Khan, disregarding the deductions; a split decision either way was more than acceptable for this closely fought titular fight!