HBO announcer bias is getting out of hand...

[daggum]

I trust Steward's response over those guys and Steward said that the point deductions were not the right call. And as correctly pointed out, pushing is a minor offense, and for a repeated minor offense, any good referee tells the fighter...."if you do that again, i'm going to take points"

And it's not as though the ref didn't mess a few low blows from Peterson, didn't get himself tangled up in the 1st round, etc, etc, etc.

In general, poor referee IMO.

khan was also holding peterson's head down, holding his head in a headlock, on top of pushing off and all for the same reason to create distance from peterson. if khan keeps doing it the ref is justified in taking points. most refs probably wouldn't but that's because we are used to most refs being on the promoters payrolls.

[deadhead09]

but anyways that ref was garbage.

must be lamont's uncle or something.

hey hey hey..............hey

[Hougigo]

fight was on hbo not ppv.

You have to pay for subscription

I'm actually liking the Brit commentary better

I did too... they weren't biased as HBO and actually saw no problem with Peterson winning

[Left Hook Tua]

khan was also holding peterson's head down, holding his head in a headlock, on top of pushing off and all for the same reason to create distance from peterson. if khan keeps doing it the ref is justified in taking points. most refs probably wouldn't but that's because we are used to most refs being on the promoters payrolls.

the guy was crowding him.

shoving his head into his face.

you're suppose to push off him off.

[turbotime]

I'm actually liking the Brit commentary better

I love listening to the SKY telecasts. That said, the HBO crew just didn't like the ref deciding the outcome of a close fight. No problem in that stance really.

[Boxingtech718v2]

I thought the HBO announcers were really outdoing themselves with the **** riding tonight. I almost pressed the mute button on the remote.

[Left Hook Tua]

hey hey hey..............hey

khan won that fight.

even with the 2 bogus point deductions.

[daggum]

the guy was crowding him.

shoving his head into his face.

you're suppose to push off him off.

yeah the guy was crowing him sucks for khan. if he wants to stop being crowded he should learn to inside fight or keep better distance not break the rules.

[ßringer]

What nobody is really addressing here is this....

Yes, the referee was garbage. But he scored Khan with a knockdown in the first round that replay clearly showed was a trip : Khan landed a hook as Lamont was trying to retreat with Amir's leg behind him, so the shot caused Peterson to trip over Khan's leg going backwards.

Take that into mind, and Peterson was only "gifted" one point by the referee. And I don't really see that as a gift, either. As the referee warned Khan multiple times about pushing and holding Peterson's head down.

Granted he should have called a timeout to officially warn Amir that he was close to having a point deducted as all referees do, but one point deduction was clearly warranted, IMO.

Whenever Mayweather pushes off with his arms, most of you guys are the first to cry about him using his elbows.

[turbotime]

yeah the guy was crowing him sucks for khan. if he wants to stop being crowded he should learn to inside fight or keep better distance not break the rules.

Can someone tell me the last time a point was taken for pushing ?

I've seen 1000's of fights and never seen it.

Ali did it more in 3 rounds than Khan did tonight.