Camp Khan feared unfair hearing
Fears that he would not receive a fair hearing prompted Amir Khan to withdraw his appeal to the IBF this week.
The Briton had been campaigning for justice for weeks, claiming poor refereeing and interference with judges were behind his loss to Lamont Peterson in Washington in December.
Khan arrived in New Jersey on Tuesday for the scheduled IBF appeal hearing but the meeting was cancelled because he and his handlers were unhappy that there was going to be only "partial representation of fight officials".
"I told IBF president Daryl Peoples if he was going to have certain people there, and others not, then that does not sound to me as if there was a fully transparent meeting," said Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions.
"It would have been a one-sided hearing where not all of the parties would have been there to tell the story."
The unexplained presence at ringside of a "mystery man," later revealed as Mustafa Ameen, who does unpaid voluntary work for the IBF, added to the "plethora of anomalies" that the Khan camp claimed marred the fight.
Video footage showed Ameen, who was not authorised to be at ringside, distracting judges and leaning across WBA supervisor Michael Welsh during the fight.
Ameen later told the BBC he was simply correcting mistakes made by Welsh on his scorecard.
"I noticed one error and a subsequent error. I assisted him in correcting it without touching anything," Ameen said.
Khan lost his WBA and IBF belts to Peterson but the WBA has already granted the Briton a rematch, which Golden Boy says will be staged within 180 days.
Khan now just wants to focus his attention on the rematch.
"Golden Boy Promotions and Team Khan are pleased to have been vindicated by the World Boxing Association's recent decision to mandate an immediate rematch and still hope that Mr Peterson will honour earlier statements in which he asserted that he would be happy to agree to a rematch," a Golden Boy statement read.
The IBF said on Tuesday Khan had withdrawn his appeal against the decision to award Peterson a victory on points. Khan lost his belts on a split decision after being docked two points for pushing during the fight on December 10.
The IBF was scheduled to hold Khan's appeal hearing on Wednesday but the organisation's public relations director, Jeanette Salazar, said in a statement "the IBF received notice that Golden Boy Promotions withdrew their appeal of the
Khan-Peterson bout".
The withdrawal of the appeal means Peterson will keep the IBF title. But he could be stripped of the WBA belt if he decides not to fight Khan in a rematch.
Khan has said he would split the earnings 50/50 with Peterson.
OLYMPIC STAR CHALLENGES RAMOS
Ron Jackson reports that American Rico Ramos will make the first defence of WBA junior featherweight title in Las Vegas on Friday night.
Ramos, 24 and unbeaten after 20 fights, including 11 knockouts, takes on former amateur star Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba.
Rigondeaux, 31, has had only eight professional fights. He won them all; six by knockout.
The challenger, who now fights out of Miami, has an outstanding amateur record. Regarded as a technically skilled fighter, he won two Olympic Games gold medals and two world amateur championship titles.
He did not impress in winning the interim WBA junior featherweight belt in November 2010 when he won on a split decision against Ricardo Cordova.
But he showed better form in defence of the belt in March 2011 when he stopped Irishman William Casey in the first round. South African referee Stan Christodoulou waved the fight off after 2 minutes 58 seconds.
The 24-year-old Ramos won the title in July last year when he came from behind to knock out Akifuma Shimoda of Japan in the seventh round.
VAZQUEZ DEFENDS IBF TITLE
Mexican Miguel Vazquez (29-3; 13) will defend his IBF lightweight title against Panamanian Ameth Diaz (30-10; 21) in Guadalajara on Saturday night.
The 25-year-old Vazquez won the vacant title in August 2010 when he outpointed Ji Hoon Kim.
He has made successful defences against Ricardo Dominguez and Leonardo Zappavigna, beating bpoth on points over 12 rounds. In June last year he knocked out Marlon Aguilar in the second round of a non-title fight.
Diaz, who is ranked No 1 by the IBF, stopped Leonardo Zappavigna in the fifth round in August last year in a final eliminator to fight for the belt.