Jeff Horn Being Pressured Into Retirement Following Loss To Tszyu

[Ruthless-RKO]

Jeff Horn Being Pressured Into Retirement Following Loss To Tszyu

Former welterweight champion Jeff Horn is being pressured into retirement by his family following his one-sided loss to undefeated upstart Tim Tszyu last month in Australia.

The 32-year-old Horn (20-3-1, 13 KOs) did not have much going for him during his eighth-round TKO loss to Tszyu (16-0, 12 KOs), and his corner stopped the fight to save the fighter from absorbing further punishment.

“[My wife] Jo has been happy for a while for me to hang up the gloves,” Horn told the Courier Mail. “She wants me to stop fighting. She hates the stress of me fighting and what I have to go through to get ready for a campaign.

“She doesn’t like watching what happened to me in the last fight, and she doesn’t want it to happen again. Look, I understand why people want me to retire and I’m hearing it from my wife and my close family members … They are saying, ‘You have done enough and you have done yourself proud, so just let it go.’”

Horn, a 2012 Olympian, has been a professional since 2013 and reached the pinnacle of his career in July 2017 when he scored an upset and highly disputed unanimous-decision win over Manny Pacquiao.

The Australian is 3-3 in his last six fights, however, alternating wins and losses, including defeats to Terence Crawford in 2018 and Michael Zerafa in 2019.

The one time WBO crownholder was also down in his rematch versus Zerafa last year before bouncing back to pull off a majority decision win.

Horn now competes at 154 pounds, and he’d have to string together a series of victories to put himself back into the title picture.

Whether or not that’s a challenge The Hornet wants to take on remains to be seen.

Openly talking about retirement perhaps offers a clue that Horn is already considering the next chapter of his life outside of boxing.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Of course it's his decision. He could probably milk a few more fights on AUS ppv? I don't know..

He clearly isn't that good and that was always a given..

Due to the Pac win, which he made $500k.. He has now netted around $5m-$6m since.. and that was mostly because of that win..

Fair play to him, he made the money.. Doesn't matter how.

[bobcatbox]

He looked totally shot last fight. Time to hang em up and shoot an action movie in Australia.

[sykessta]

Try for a career in wrestling or rugby.

[gregregegg]

Probably should retire, but if he wants to keep boxing fair enough. been in too many hard fights latly though, Pac, Craw, both zerafas and tszyu all put miles on the clock.

I guess the question if he does fight is who.

-Pac rematch.... If pac wants to right the wrong and get a "tune up" (weird saying that after he lost the first one but i feel thats what it would be now) , then i mean you probably dont say no to that at any point.
- Khan? big name, weak chin. can see horn getting retired by his corner again though.
-Sam Eggington, Winnable fight and a fun one.
-Dennis hogan, Brissy battle.
-Connor mcgregor... Bit of a joke, got to the point when you could bet on it when jeff had the belt, but now... i mean, if he wants the easiest crossover of a guy that could be painted as world levle....

that or full on domestic level and/or ex footy players that have 25+ lbs on him. or teach...

[sykessta]

Probably should retire, but if he wants to keep boxing fair enough. been in too many hard fights latly though, Pac, Craw, both zerafas and tszyu all put miles on the clock.

I guess the question if he does fight is who.

-Pac rematch.... If pac wants to right the wrong and get a "tune up" (weird saying that after he lost the first one but i feel thats what it would be now) , then i mean you probably dont say no to that at any point.
- Khan? big name, weak chin. can see horn getting retired by his corner again though.
-Sam Eggington, Winnable fight and a fun one.
-Dennis hogan, Brissy battle.
-Connor mcgregor... Bit of a joke, got to the point when you could bet on it when jeff had the belt, but now... i mean, if he wants the easiest crossover of a guy that could be painted as world levle....

that or full on domestic level and/or ex footy players that have 25+ lbs on him. or teach...

Whose to say Conor wants that fight? Do you think it would sell in the UK? I highly doubt it would in the USA most people don't know who the hvll Jeff Horn is even after that "win" against Pacquiao. I just don't see why Mcgregor would put a stop to his MMA career to do another boxing fight unless it's something comparable to what he made against Floyd.

[DrDuke]

Probably he still has something left, he's just not a top level guy, whose reputation was blown up.

[cormack]

isnt he a sports teacher in school anyway .

as a boxer total waste of time now