Three weeks after suffering the worst beating of his career, a knockout loss to countryman Michael Zerafa in Bendigo, former WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn spoke to Fox Sports News and The Daily Telegraph to declare he will stick with his trainer Glenn Rushton in deciding to keep fighting.
Horn's wife and other family members want him to retire.
“If Jo (wife) had her way there would be no more boxing,” Horn said. “But this is my decision. My mum and all my family say they’d be extremely happy and proud if I gave it away. They keep saying I don’t need to do it. I’ve already set up my family so it’s not about the money. I know how I want to finish and it wasn’t the way the fight ended against Zerafa.”
Horn rose to middleweight for his brutal late-round KO loss to Zerafa, and he has asked his promoter Dean Lonergan to look at all options for a fight before Christmas.
There was some animosity in the aftermath of the loss, with Rushton telling media members that Horn was eating junk food during trainin camp.
“I was frustrated with Glenn for bringing that up,” Horn said. “It wasn’t something that should have been broadcast publicly straight after the fight.
“But I admit I let myself down. I wasn’t training as hard or I wasn’t as hungry as I was before the (Manny) Pacquiao fight.”
Rushton regrets making those comments about his boxer.
“My timing wasn’t right and I’ve apologised to Jeff,” Rushton said, “What I meant to say was that Jeff didn’t pay as much attention to his diet.
“Because he was going up to middleweight, he knew he could eat pretty much whatever he wanted.
“That doesn’t mean you should eat wrong foods. You’ve got to have good fuel in your body.”
