The "Mystery Man" saga continues.
According to a report by BBC Sport, Amir Khan's trainer - Freddie Roach - says he personally knows the mystery man seen at ringside during the Lamont Peterson fight and once ejected him from a training camp for United States Olympic boxers.
Roach told BBC Sport that he also believes that the man, identified by the fight's promoter as Mustafa Ameen, is not an International Boxing Federation (IBF) official as has been claimed. Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, which promoted the Khan-Peterson fight, had stated that Ameen was an IBF official who was given accreditation for the fight but was not directly involved in it.
"He comes to my gym. He came to the [US] Olympic training centre and I actually had him removed one time," he said. "I told the coaches: 'There's no need for him to be here.' He goes to gyms and talks to other people's fighters. But he does know the boundaries because he doesn't go after my fighters - but he does talk to other people's fighters and he's been told not to a couple of times, even here in my gym."
"[Ameen] has no credentials; he's not a member of any boxing organization. There's no reason for him to be at ringside. Why he was ringside and why he was in the ring afterwards celebrating and so forth I have no idea."
"You've got a guy sitting beside [Michael Welsh, World Boxing Association supervisor] that's talking about who's winning rounds and so forth - we can only speculate on what they were talking about but most likely they are talking about the fight. And people get influenced by other people easily. And that's why the rules are that no-one but officials are at ring-side."