The mystery "man in a hat" accused by Amir Khan of interfering with the judges scorecards during his defeat to Lamont Peterson in December has broken his silence on his much-speculated identity.
Khan took to Twitter to comment about the man - since identified as Mustafa Ameen - before his name was known. It was reported that Ameen (pictured far left) works for the IBF and has close links throughout boxing, a claim disputed by Khan's trainer Freddy Roach.
Despite insisting he has done nothing wrong, Ameen refused to answer questions relating to the controversial incident in which he is seen pointing over the fight supervisor's shoulder while ringside.
He told the Las Vegas Examiner: "I've got nothing to hide.
"I am not running, ducking, or anything. I can discuss – without talking about the merits of what happened – I will just say that there is a lot of misinformation.
"I've been called a lot of names over the past few days, which attacks my credibility, and attacks my reputation that I worked very hard on in all my years in boxing.
"Amir Khan and Golden Boy have requested a hearing to appeal the decision and I am going to participate in the hearing. I think it's important to let the facts be known and I don't want anybody crafting a defence based on something that someone wrote on the internet.
"I'm telling you that there was a bunch of crap about this unidentified man, who was me, and nobody seemed to know who 'he' was.
"Just 24 hours later, everybody in boxing, including the trainer of Amir Khan and everybody else, said, 'I know him'. But they didn't know me 24 hours prior to that. I'm known in boxing circles, I'm not a secret.
"It's unfair for them to slander me and undo all the things that I've worked hard for in terms of my reputation. People know me through Michael Hunter and the IBF. I'm not a mystery man at all. That was a bunch of BS from the very beginning."
