Jeff Horn's wife, other family members pressuring him to retire
Jeff Horn’s family reportedly believes it’s time for him to call it quits. Horn isn’t so sure.
The 32-year-old fighter’s wife and other members of his family, citing the brutal beating he took from Tim Tszyu on Aug. 26 and other wars, say he has taken enough punishment in his successful boxing career.
Horn is trying to process their feelings but also remain true to himself.
“Jo has been happy for a while for me to hang up the gloves,” the Aussie told the Courier Mail. “She wants me to stop fighting. She hates the stress of me fighting and what I have to go through to get ready for a campaign.
“She doesn’t like watching what happened to me in the last fight, and she doesn’t want it to happen again. Look, I understand why people want me to retire and I’m hearing it from my wife and my close family members.
“They are saying, ‘You have done enough and you have done yourself proud, so just let it go.’”
Horn (20-3-1, 13 KOs) reached his peak with a stunning unanimous-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in July 2017 in Brisbane, by which he earned a world welterweight title.
However, he’s only 3-3 since that victory. He was stopped in nine rounds by Terence Crawford in June 2018, stopped by Michael Zerafa in the same round in August of last year and lasted only eight rounds against Tszyu.
Horn avenged the loss to Zerafa by outpointing him last December. That could end being his final victory.