Queensland Police Won The Internet With Their Manny Pacquiao – Jeff Horn Tweet

Australia’s Jeff Horn brushed aside the outcry against his shock victory over Manny Pacquiao Monday and said he hoped taking the Filipino’s WBO welterweight title would help reinvigorate boxing Down Under.

Horn added, “There will always be a backlash where people say I got lucky, or whatever. Where? Show me how you came up with that score'”.

“My name wasn’t normally mentioned in those programs, but now hopefully I’m a bit more recognised and I’ve established myself in the boxing community a bit more”. Horn received this opportunity after Pacquiao (59-7-2) and Amir Khan couldn’t come to terms.

“The Battle of Brisbane” was supposed to be a walkover for Manny Pacquiao, a potential tune-up for a rematch with Floyd Mayweather, but Jeff Horn – and the judges – had another idea.

Despite Pacquiao’s positivity, a number of athletes – including Aaron Rodgers, Kobe Bryant, and DeMar DeRozan – took to social media to express their negative reactions to judge Waleska Roldan’s 117-111 card, as well as the identical 115-113 cards of judges Chris Flores and Ramon Cerdan.

Manny Pacquiao, right, watches a chess match on board a chartered flight from Australia to General Santos yesterday.

ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who usually calls basketball, made it clear he had no time for Horn, degrading him for being given a title shot.

The second thing it says is how much ESPN adores him, too.

Some observers – including ESPN – scored the fight in favor of Pacquiao. Even though the network retired its Friday Night Fights series a couple years ago, Bristol is on the verge of getting back into the boxing game on a more significant basis.

Were they aging fighters that Horn could build his name with…yes. Had Pacquiao been seen by the judges as victorious, then instead of criticism Horn would be applauded for producing arguably the gutsiest performance in Australian boxing history.

“I’ll need to do the research and spend hundreds of hours like I did studying Manny Pacquiao to crystallise it down to a plan. Hopefully he comes back in the rematch and beats Horn just like he did to Tim Bradley after losing that first fight, which was also a bulls**t decision”. “No problem”, Pacquiao said in the ring after the judges’ decision. He was trying to ruin the moment for me at that point.

“He did his best at the end but I could see he was struggling mentally to get through those later rounds and whether he could come back”.