Amir Khan’s trainer Freddie Roach says he knows the mystery man at the ringside during his client’s match with Lamont Peterson and says he is not an International Boxing Federation official.
Roach told the BBC that he once dismissed Mustafa Ameen from a training camp for theUnited StatesOlympic boxers.
“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.”
Due to the rules on possible interference, Roach also believes that the fight between Khan and Peterson should be declared a no match and a rematch should be held.
“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.”
