Comments Thread For: Unbeaten Jeff Horn Overcomes Knockdown; Stops Ali Funeka in Sixth

[1hourRun]

Man funeka knocked him dow hard with his head lol, horn ran into it that woud have been the first headbutt ko.

lol.

Just saw the fight. Horn jumping in way too wide from the very start of the fight, looking painfully obvious he's trying for an early knockout. And Funeka not looking like any kind of veteran, not taking advantage. I think Box Nation commentators made a good point about Horn leveraging his shots by using his legs, but there's no variety, it's all single big swing after single big swing and then he jumps out looking all off balance. Anyways, I'll give him some credit, he landed some really good overhand rights at the end of the fifth and the sixth to close it out. Tightening up his guard should be priority going forward.



You were riding Vargas to beat Pac, now he's back to being a bum?

My comment was not knocking any of those fighters just a fact ; they are more competitive matches than this crash-test-dummy -- I dont even think Horn goes five rounds with Pac, he might be his first legit KO in years.

[Tomjas]

Horn is typical of what is wrong with Australian boxing

The guy has some talent but has literally fought nobody and should be heading to the US for a couple of years whilst working his way up the rankings

Instead he is already highly ranked and will probably get a shot at somebody before he is ready with almost inevitable consequences.

We have seen it time and again

[macman]

"but has literally fought nobody"..?

Horn has an excellent resume for a guy with only 17 fights : http://boxrec.com/boxer/635000
He's fought 4 guys with losing records - otherwise undefeated guys or guys with very solid resumes

A few highlights:
7th fight he fought 37-3 Naoufel Ben Rabeh (only 6 rounder but won solidly)
12th fight 32-2 Viktor Plotnykov who won the IBF Inter-Continental welterweight title the fight before
14th fight - 22-1-1 Ahmed El Mousaoui
15th fight - the still dangerous Randall Bailey

And he's dominated every fight he's had.

Still a long way to go for the likes of Pacquiao but Horn is an excellent up & coming contender.