WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn is smiling from ear to ear after the WBO finished their investigation regarding the recent fight with Manny Pacquiao.
Veteran ESPN announcer Teddy Atlas claimed before the fight two weeks ago that Horn had 'no chance' of winning and derided his performance as the match went on at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.
After the former schoolteacher was declared the winner, the 60-year-old shoved a microphone in his face declaring: 'Congratulations, I thought you lost.'
Horn's controversial victory was vindicated on Tuesday after the World Boxing Organisation had five judges re-score the fight - and ruled in his favour.
According to Horn and his promoter Duco Events, Atlas' commentary was a big factor in fan outrage and convinced Pacquiao and the Philippines Government to put pressure on the WBO to review the result.
Now a furious Horn insists he won't even talk to the broadcaster at Thursday's ESPN awards in Los Angeles.
"I have nothing to say to Teddy Atlas," Horn told the Courier Mail. "I’m not a fan anymore. He kind of annoyed me a little bit after the fight. I’m on a high after winning and he’s tried to drag me down straight away. It’s disappointing.
"[They] brushed me and said that they definitely thought I lost the fight. Especially straight after the fight, when Teddy has said to me, "Ah, you lost that fight. That’s what I think. When I was on my high as well, so he’s bringing me down straight away."
Horn called the WBO's decision a 'big relief' that allowed him to go to the U.S. for the ESPN awards with confidence.
"To win the fight, and to think that I’ve won the fight and then for everyone to go after you and say 'you didn’t win the fight'... it’s frustrating but then to have this finally makes it a bit easier to go over to the US," he told Fox Sports.