Full name Jeff Horn Club Stretton Boxing Club Weight 67 kg Sport Boxing Height 1.75 m | Nationality Australia Role Olympic athlete Nickname(s) The Hornet Name Jeff Horn | |
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Jeff horn australia s next sporting superstar
Jeffrey Horn Jr. (born 4 February 1988) is an Australian professional boxer. He has held the WBO welterweight title since July 2017, after defeating Manny Pacquiao in a unanimous decision. As an amateur, Horn represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals of the light-welterweight bracket.
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- Jeff horn australia s next sporting superstar
- Eimantas stanionis vs jeff horn 2012 y a socikas boxing tournament final 64 kg
- Amateur boxing career
- Results
- Professional boxing career
- Horn vs Pacquiao
- Rescore by WBO
- First defense
- Personal life
- References
Eimantas stanionis vs jeff horn 2012 y a socikas boxing tournament final 64 kg
Amateur boxing career
As a relative newcomer to the sport, Horn won his first Australian title in 2009 and repeated the feat in 2011. He went on to win a silver medal at the Gee-Bee Tournament in Helsinki and compete at the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku where he lost to eventual champion Everton Lopes in the second round. In 2012, he picked up his third Australian title and first Oceania title to earn a spot at the London Olympics.
Results
Men's Light Welterweight (64 kg)
- Round of 32 (1st Match): Jeff Horn, Australia (19) defeated Gilbert Choombe, Zambia (5)
- Round of 16 (2nd Match): Jeff Horn, Australia (17) defeated Abderrazak Houya, Tunisia (11)
- Quarterfinals (3rd Match): Jeff Horn, Australia (13) lost to Denys Berinchyk, Ukraine (21)
Professional boxing career
Horn made his professional debut in Altona North, Victoria, Australia on 1 March 2013 winning a 2nd-round technical knockout. In just his seventh pro bout he outpointed two time world title challenger & former IBF no.1 contender Naoufel Ben Rabah. On 27 April 2016, Horn faced former two-division world champion Randall Bailey. After dropping Bailey in the second round, Horn was knocked down in the third round. Horn won by TKO after Bailey refused to get up from his corner before Round 8. On 21 October 2016, Horn fought Rico Mueller, and defeated the German by TKO in Round 9. After the fight, the World Boxing Organization ranked him the #2 welterweight in the world. On 10 December 2016, Horn faced former IBO welterweight champion Ali Funeka, whom he stopped in the sixth round. With Top Rank promoter Bob Arum in attendance, his win set up a potential showdown with eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.
Horn vs. Pacquiao
Horn signed up to face WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on 23 April 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. The announcement of the fight was met with relative surprise and disappointment due to Horn's limited exposure on the world stage, which led Pacquiao to comment "I don't know who Jeff Horn is". A tweet on 12 February by Pacquiao complicated negotiations when he said that he planned to fight in the United Arab Emirates. On 26 February Pacquiao and Amir Khan announced that they had reached an agreement to fight, leaving Horn without an opponent. On 7 March the fight with Khan was called off and on 5 April a deal for the Pacquiao-Horn fight was reached. A press conference on 10 April signaled confirmation of the fight, which took place on 2 July 2017 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. Horn defeated Pacquiao by a unanimous decision after 12 rounds. CompuBox stats showed that Pacquiao landed 182 out of 573 punches thrown (32%), whilst Horn landed only 92 of 625 thrown (15%).
The majority of media scored the fight in favour of Pacquiao. ESPN's Dan Rafael scored the fight 117-111 and ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas scored it 116-111, both for Pacquiao. Boxing Scene had it 116-112 for Pacquiao, while CBS Sports scored the fight 114-114 even. BoxNation's Steve Bunce scored the fight 115-113 for Horn.
Rescore by WBO
In response to a formal request by the Philippine Games and Amusements Board, the WBO agreed to review the fight between Pacquiao and Horn. It was scored round-by-round by five anonymous judges, but the WBO stated that they do not have the power to reverse the original result of the fight. The WBO rescored the fight in favor of Horn winning seven rounds, and Pacquiao winning five.
First defense
Initially, Horn was to give Pacquiao a rematch, but the rematch has been delayed until 2018. The most likely candidate for defense of the title is Gary Corcoran.
Personal life
Horn's father, Jeff Horn Sr., is a builder. His mother, Liza Dykstra, works for the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. His grandfather, Ray Horn, fought in exhibition boxing matches in the Queensland outback during the 1930s. Graham Quirk, the incumbent Lord Mayor of Brisbane, is his second cousin.
Horn holds a Bachelor of Education degree from Griffith University and formerly worked as a physical education teacher for Pallara State School in Brisbane.
He met his wife Joanna in Year 8 at MacGregor State High School. They started dating during the schoolies week of Year 12 and got married in September 2014. She is pregnant with their first child.
In his youth, Horn had been a victim of bullying and cited this as the reason he started boxing, initially as a means to defend himself.