Exclusive - Warren tells Khan: Stop bleating about Peterson defeat!

Frank Warren has told Amir Khan to ‘stop bleating’ about his defeat to Lamont Peterson and accept he was beaten fair and square.

Khan has claimed an unidentified man may have interfered with the scoring during his controversial points loss in Washington in December, and posted videos on the internet as supposed evidence.

The Bolton fighter lost his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles as a result of the shock defeat in Peterson's hometown, with a two-point deduction for pushing proving critical, and an appeal against the decision will be held later this month.

But Warren, Khan’s former promoter, has urged the 25-year-old and his team ‘to stop coming out with this garbage’ and focus their energies on setting up a rematch.

"Most people in boxing are looking at this and saying, ‘for God’s sake Amir, give it a rest,'" Warren told Keys & Gray. “I can’t see what is untoward [in the videos]. Everyone has got to step back and look at the fight. Was it an outrageous decision? The answer to it is 'no'.

“He was told on numerous occasions he would get points deducted if he kept doing what he did. He kept doing what the referee told him not to do. Jim Watt in his commentary on Sky TV said it more or less the same time I was thinking: ‘If he keeps doing it the referee will dock another point.’ That’s exactly what the referee did.

"It’s like clutching at straws. They shouldn’t have gone to Washington if they had a big worry about it. If they want a rematch, get a rematch sorted, but stop bleating about it.

“The fact is it was a very, very close fight that could probably have gone either way but there was no outrageous decision and people should stop coming out with this garbage. Get the rematch on, fight the guy again and the best man will win.”