It was enough late Saturday night that a 27-year-old man from Southeast, dispossessed before a boxing trainer took him and his little brother in when the boy was 10, rocked the fight world by winning his first chief world title over the high-priced preferred.
But when ring presenter Michael Buffer hollered the words, “And NEW SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD” and Lamont Peterson grubby his joyful tears against the arms of Barry Hunter and his handlers and Amir Khan shook his head in disgust after the sport’s umpteenth contentious decision the night was just beginning for the combatants.
After the post fight news conference, they would bizarrely meet again in the waiting area of an emergency room. It was 2 a.m. Sunday outside the George Washington Hospital ER when Peterson’s publicist saw a black Escalade pull up behind his vehicle.
This being the District’s first major competition fight in nearly 20 years, not many medical professional beyond the ring doctor was present at the Walter E. Washington gathering Center afterward. So Peterson’s people picked the neighboring facility to their hotel for a genuine post fight examination.
Unknowingly to the new champ, so did the man he took two belt from with a split-decision victory over 12 demanding rounds before an HBO audience?
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