JEFF HORN UPSETS MANNY PACQUIAO TO WIN WBO TITLE
Australian Fighters Get Every Decision, Pacquiao Out punches Horn 182-92, Loses
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Brisbane, Australia (July 2, 2017)– The only way to win in Australia is generally to knock out your outback opponent and keep or retain your title. Fighters only go to Australia if the money is on the table. Shane Mosley Jr., like his dad Shane Mosley, learned a hard lesson on Sunday, July 2, 2017, at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
16-0-1 Brisbane challenger Jeff Horn, whose only draw (against Rivan Cesaire in 2013) was avenged by TKO, landed two good accidental head butts, one each in rounds six and seven against Manny Pacquiao. CompuBox had Pacquiao landing 182 punches in the 12 round contest to Horn’s 92. That statistic alone meant Pacquiao was the winner by punches scored. Horn remained aggressive throughout, to his credit, and Pacquiao has a mandatory rematch clause. Horn was not the ‘Horn of Plenty’ (goes the expression), rather Manny Pacquiao was, and the point needs to be well taken.
Bob Arum’s 3-0 super bantamweight prospect Michael Conlan of Belfast, Northern Ireland was the sole fighter on the card to beat an Australian, 5-6-3 Jarrett Owen of Brisbane, when Owen’s corner threw in the towel in the third round. Owen has only one win over a fighter with a winning record in his last eight bouts, but Conlan still had to stop him to avoid a possible robbery in his opponent’s Australian hometown.
On December 26, 1908 in Sydney, Australia, Jack Johnson stopped Tommy Burns in the fourteen round of a widely acknowledged fixed fight stoppage to win the World Heavyweight title. Burns was losing badly at the time of the stoppage, though he claimed he could have continued. The late Detroit super lightweight DuJuan Johnson scored a ninth round knockout of Brian Janssen in Brisbane on June 1, 1984, his last fight before getting shot to death on the mean streets of Detroit. Super welterweight Joshua Clottey won a 12 round decision over Anthony Mundine in a WBA regional title fight in Newcastle on April 9, 2014. However, wins like these in Australia by foreign fighters are exceedingly rare.
Results at Suncorp Stadium
Jeff Horn (Australian) Win 12 Manny Pacquiao, Lightweights
Horn wins World Boxing Organization World Lightweight Title
Scoring: 117-111, 115-113, 115-113 Horn. Referee: Mark Nelson
WBO Official: Francisco Valcarcel. Pacquiao landed 182 punches, Horn 92 punches.
Jerwin Ancajas TKO 7 Teiro Kinoshita, Super Flyweights. Kinoshita down in round 7.
Ancajas retains International Boxing Federation World Super. Flyweight title.
Damien Hooper (Australian) Win 10 Umar Salamov, Light Heavyweights
Hoop wins WBO and wins vacant IBF International Light Heavyweight titles
Scoring: 96-94, 96-94, 96-94 Hooper
David Toussaint (Australian) Win Split Decision 10 Shane Mosley Jr., Middleweights
Scoring: 77-76, 77-76 Toussaint. 77-75 Mosley. Toussaint got a head butt cut in round two.
Brent Dames (Australian) Win 6 Jonel Dapidran, Super Lightweights
Brock Jarvis (Australian) KO 1 Rasmanudin, Bantamweights
Michael Conlan (UK) TKO 3 Jarrett Owen (Australian), Featherweights (Towel Thrown)
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