His comment was clear tongue in cheek with him having no influence on such decisions,the Phillipines government actually got involved when they have no business doing so.The whole thing is laughable Phillipines Govt. getting involved and anybody thinking a boxing promoter from New Zealand has any influence in who gets into Australia.
Maybe because he is a Filipino hero and Icon, humanitarian and a Senator and the people loves him truly that's why the whole country backs him up. Nothing wrong with being a united country than the other way around. I see it as good example to some other countries who treats their own sportsman lowly...
Horn proved himself a hero in this country with the courage he showed and sportsmanship he has shown throughout his career so far even despite having to deal with sum of the scumbag Pacquio fans making death threats to Jeff Horns preagnant wife .Also our countries politicians would never get involved because of the result of a sporting contest that didn't go our way especially a close contest like this clearly was lol.
Well Horn has a lot more to prove, a long way to go. Manny did not earn his reputation over night or over a one shot win. It took him years of fighting and humanitarian works to his countryman. Trust me, it's unimaginable sacrifice that he has done for years. RE: the scumbags you are accusing about, that all a lie and made up. No proof shown so it's all hoax. It's sad. RE: your country's politician, well, Philippines love their hero and supports him fully - nothing bad about this. To each their country's decision. Philippines is united...
Watch the fight, anyone who had Horn winning should just go away....................they are very ignorant on how to score a fight, but that fight was not even close...........Teddy Atlas hates Pac, always has, but this robbery was so obvious that he raised hell and rightly so, this is a loss for the sport of boxing...........
Atlas was a complete **** and robbed Jeff Horn of the credit he deserves for that win. That is sad. I won't be sad at all if Horn UD's Pac very convincingly next time.
What Atlas did is a relatively minor offense in comparison to Bernard Hopkin's angrily throwing the Puerto Rican flag to the floor and trampling it under his feet during his prefight interview in Puerto Rico prior to fighting Trinidad. Curiously, although he was chased from the stadium by the crowd, there were no demands that he be banned from visiting again. In fact, he defiantly appeared on TV there shortly after and Trinidad cautiously avoided him. Can't imagine that happening in Mexico.
Say what you want about Teddy Atlas but on this matter he was DEAD RIGHT!!. No way in hades did Horn win that fight. Horn came into that fight as a big underdog & was expected to fold early. He surprised everyone he came to FIGHT!! Some of his tactics were rule breaking but were totally ignored by the referee. It was blatant bias. & Horn took full advantage. Pac's cuts were caused by head butts Andre Ward would be proud of The judge that scored it 117-111 should be put out to pasture alongside CJ Ross, Eugenia Williams & Dave Moretti it was ludicrous Kudos to Jeff Horn he came to fight he fought hard but he didn't win