Lamont Peterson To Make Announcement Regarding Boxing Career
According to a January 25th press release, IBF Junior Welterweight Champ Lamont Peterson is set to make what is being called “a special announcement regarding his boxing career” on Monday January 28th. Peterson has not fought since 2011 when he defeated then champ Amir Khan in a controversial split decision. The rematch planned for May 19, 2012 was cancelled following Peterson’s positive test for synthetic testosterone. Peterson has been stripped of the WBA 140-pound title as a result of the failed pre-fight drug test, but still held the IBF Light Welterweight title which he was scheduled to defend against Kendall Holt at the DC Armory on February 22, 2013 as part of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights”.
Interestingly enough, for a fight scheduled to happen in less than a month, there has been zero promotion of the fight and no details in regards to ticket sales. The vague press release and the lack of discussion about the fight leave the possibility of the fight being canceled entirely which would be a hit on a DC fight scene looking host another fight. The controversy following the first Peterson and Khan fight was another black eye on boxing in the nation’s capital. Prior to the first Peterson/Khan fight, DC had not hosted a major fight card since Mike Tyson ended his career in a terrible loss to Kevin McBride in 2005. More details will come out on Monday, but it appears that the fight may be off.
I can think of 4 ways this could go. 1. Cheaterson is going to say he has cancer or some type if disease and he will retire and try to fight it. See #2. He’s gonna make some kind of Lance Armstrong announcement and cop to cheating all along. While most point to the fact that Lance did so much for cancer, I have to wonder if the steroids actually caused his cancer. I’m inclined to think they did. 3. Someone has a video of him actually juicing and saying what he was doing and they are about to blackmail him, forcing him to do #2. Or 4. The juice is still in his system and/or has something else on him and he’s gonna beat them to the punch with this announcement. Either way, I am 100% sure Monday’s announcement will NOT be good. Your thoughts author?
Agreed, it’s not going to be good. The announcement of the announcement was so vague and the timing is so weird, it has to either be about retiring or canceling this fight. The description of it being about Peterson’s “career” leaves me to believe that he’s going to retire. It’s a shame though, this Friday Night fights would have been great for DC.
It would have been a sellout! They woulda added Anthony Peterson as well as Dusty Harrison who would brought like 500 people in himself. Do you cover boxing or only DC type stuff or do you do it all? I will follow you in the future. If you do boxing, there is a rumor that Danny Garcia is gonna announce on Monday (stealing Lamont’s thunder) that he is backing out of the Zab Judah fight scheduled for Feb 9.
Okay. Nevermind. I’m reading your write up now. You do it all. Lol
Okay. I’m going to do a 180 on this one. The fight is on. Tix go on sale tomorrow. Here’s the deal. I think the announcement will be (and this is my gut) that he now has a promoter. Probably Gary Shaw Productions. Shaw won the bid for the Holt fight. Holt is with Shaw. I think Lamont will be too. So Shaw will pull an “arum” and win no matter what- as he has options on both guys.
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Mitch,
Apparently it was a red herring and a pretty smart move my Peterson’s management to get people interested. The “announcement” was just that Peterson has signed with Golden Boy Promotions. All in all it’s pretty big for him, considering that a year ago, De La Hoya and GBP were screaming bloody murder after Peterson beat Khan in DC.