{"id":333378,"date":"2017-07-02T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T09:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333378"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T10:46:02","slug":"jeff-horn-beats-manny-pacquiao-to-win-wbo-welterweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/jeff-horn-beats-manny-pacquiao-to-win-wbo-welterweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Horn beats Manny Pacquiao to win WBO welterweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former schoolteacher Jeff Horn stunned champion Manny Pacquiao to win the WBO world welterweight title with a unanimous points decision in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
The three judges scored the fight 117-111, 115-113, 115-113 to the 29-year-old Australian at Lang Park.<\/p>\n
“That’s the decision of the judges. I respect that,” said 38-year-old Pacquiao.<\/p>\n
The Filipino, an eight-weight world champion, has now lost four of his past nine fights.<\/p>\n
Horn, 29, was aggressive from the opening bell, although Pacquiao’s left jabs scored points in the early stages.<\/p>\n
Horn, who has now won 17 and drawn one of his 18 bouts, caused Pacquiao problems during the middle rounds and cut him above both eyes.<\/p>\n
The veteran fought back with a brilliant counter-attack in the ninth round, only for Horn to win the 10th.<\/p>\n
Both fighters tired in the final two rounds, with Horn’s good work in the opening stages proving enough for a famous win.
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Horn, nicknamed ‘The Hornet’, grew up in Brisbane and first walked into a boxing club 11 years ago to learn self-defence.<\/p>\n
While studying for his degree, he reached the quarter-finals of the London 2012 Olympics, turned professional soon after and made his debut in 2013.<\/p>\n
Horn, who until recently taught students at Pallara State School in Brisbane, won prize money sometimes as low as A$2,000 (\u00a31,100).<\/p>\n
Reports claim<\/i>\u00a0he won a guaranteed $500,000 (\u00a3383,832) from his fight against Pacquiao.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former schoolteacher Jeff Horn stunned champion Manny Pacquiao to win the WBO world welterweight title with a unanimous points decision in Brisbane. The three judges scored the fight 117-111, 115-113, 115-113 to the 29-year-old Australian at Lang Park. “That’s the decision of the judges. I respect that,” said 38-year-old Pacquiao. The Filipino, an eight-weight world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1345],"tags":[306,8831,8832],"yoast_head":"\n