By Lem Satterfield

During the aftermath of a Dec. 11, HBO televised, unanimous decision by WBA junior welterweight (140 pounds) champ Amir Khan over WBA interim titlist Marcos Rene Maidana, Khan's strength coach, Alex Ariza, and Maidana's trainer, Miguel Diaz, engaged in a heated, verbal brawl in the ring. 

Ariza, the assistant trainer to Khan and Manny Pacquiao, told FanHouse that Diaz came across the ring and launched into a verbal assault that Ariza felt was tainted with insinuations that he was providing the fighters with performance enhancing drugs. During a recent interview that was posted on BoxingScene.com, however, Khan responded to Diaz's comments.

"It is hurtful. I am drug-tested and have never tested positive because I am so clean. I don't even drink. I would never, ever take a banned substance," said Khan. "I would never cheat in sport. Why would I want to cheat in sport or take drugs?" said Khan. "I am too scared to take something like that because I train so hard and my body is so fit."

"To call me a fraud, you know, I don't cheat. Everybody knows that," said Ariza. "I train my fighters, and I'm legitimate. I don't give them anything. Anything illegal."

But the 72-year-old Diaz denied Ariza's assertion that he was not accusing Ariza of doing anything illegal.

"'You are a f**king fraud that's what you are.' But Alex is the one who started everything with me. Maybe it's in his subconcious or something like that. But at no time did I ever say that he cheats," said Diaz.

"I didn't say that he cheats, I said that he's a fraud if he thinks that Manny Pacquiao is what he is because he had anything to do with why Pacquiao is what he is," said Diaz. "Pacquiao and Freddie Roach are of everything, with or without Ariza."

Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here .