Australian boxer Jeff Horn, 29, is set to earn 100 times what he earned in 2017 in his first Las Vegas fight.
Jeff Horn successfully retained his WBO welterweight championship after sealing a technical knockout in the 11th round over Gary Corcoran in Brisbane on Wednesday night.
The World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion could now be offered a staggering $2 million to get in the ring with Anthony Mundine.
Fighting for the first time since his contentious win over Manny Pacquiao in July, it was a lot closer than the 29-year-old would have liked his first world title defence to be
He is then expected to get a multi-million dollar pay out to face Terence Crawford in Las Vegas in April, The Courier Mail reported.
Horn has reportedly mentioned making an ‘easy $2 million’ against Mundine.
Horn’s promoter Bob Arum reportedly wants to tee up a number of bouts in the US in 2018.
Horn’s fight against Gary Corcoran was his first since his contentious win over Manny Pacquiao in July.
it was a lot closer than the 29-year-old would have liked his first world title defence to be.
Wednesday night’s fight was a lot closer than the 29-year-old would have liked, with Corcoran only throwing the towel in due to a nasty cut near his battered left eye.
Horn was the heavy favourite with bookmakers but Corcoran, who had lost just one of his 18 career fights, proved to be no pushover.
Jeff Horn has successfully retained his welterweight championship after sealing a technical knockout in the 11th round over Gary Corcoran in Brisbane on Wednesday night
Horn was the heavy favourite with bookmakers and started the stronger but Corcoran, who had lost just one of his 18 career fights, proved to be no pushover
The London-based Irish Traveller wanted to bring the fight in close and that’s what he did throughout the early rounds, many of which were difficult to call.
Horn looked short of his usual energy – perhaps a product of his dramatic weight loss of 4kg in 24 hours to come under the welterweight limit.
But Corcoran tired quicker and eventually lost his momentum.
He was also warned twice by referee Benjy Esteves Jnr for hitting Horn in the back of the head and landed a flush right hand after the bell to end the seventh round – much to the anger of the near-capacity crowd at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition centre.
The champion opened the 10th round with a flurry of punches that sent Corcoran through the ropes, before the referee inspected his eye at the start of the next round to ensure he was right to continue.
Corcoran’s corner threw in the towel due to a nasty cut near his battered left eye
The London-based Irish Traveller (left) wanted to bring the fight in close and that’s what he did throughout the early rounds, many of which were difficult to call
Little more than a minute later, it was all over.
‘Too many cuts. Fair play to Jeff, he is a good fighter,’ Corcoran said.
‘I’ll be back to learn from it. I’ll come again.’
Horn said his felt like his timing was ‘a bit off’.
‘I felt my timing was a bit off but I got him in the end,’ Horn said.
‘The whole fight I felt I was a little bit off tonight.’
Corcoran gave Horn a tough time early on but the former teacher found his stride gradually
The result puts Horn in line for some big-money blockbusters against some of boxing’s biggest names in 2018.
His next opponent is likely to be arguably the world’s finest pound-for-pound fighter, Terence Crawford, in Las Vegas.
A rematch against Pacquiao is a possibility if Horn can pull off another against-the-odds win over the unbeaten American.
Horn, a former ‘Fighting Schoolteacher’, is reportedly in the market for a seven-figure home in Brisbane.
He currently lives in a home he bought for $340,000 with his wife, but needs more room for his assets.
Horn was loaned a $235,000 Lexus LC500, which he currently parks on his front lawn, and his wife Jo drives a Lexus four-wheel drive.