Today, we continue the conversation with a boxing champion and his incredible wife!\xa0 I have watched enough Rocky & Creed movies to know that the real story happens behind the scenes and away from the boxing ring.\xa0 Jeff & Joanna Horn met in Year 8 and eventually married in 2014. \xa0
Joanna studied business and sport\u2019s management and can be found ringside for all of Jeff\u2019s fights.\xa0 Even his epic 12-round win in 2017 over welterweight world Champion Manny Pacquiao to thousands of Aussie screaming fans in Brisbane.\xa0 Being crowned Welterweight boxing Champion thrust Jeff into the limelight like never before. \xa0
Nat introduced me to Jeff at the 2012 London Games & I\u2019ll never forget this moment of him doing some form of footwork/air punching warm up and thinking \u201ccan arms really accelerate that fast \u2013 it was like a Bruce Lee moment\u201d.\xa0 He was a relative unknown on the scene and as his popularity soars, his ego does not. Don\u2019t you just love that in people?!? His humility and understated character has continued on no matter his successes. Somehow, he seems like that \u201cconstant underdog\u201d that you can\u2019t help but pull for.\xa0
But then, put yourself in the shoes of his high school sweetheart wife, who has never missed a fight, with two young kids at home, (who probably liked it a lot more when he was a PE teacher), watching the man you love and the father of your kids constantly being beaten in the head.\xa0 And there have been some bloody match ups for Jeff.\xa0 She has been quoted as saying:
\u201cWhen I see him looking dazed up there, it\u2019s just soul-destroying, being on the other side of the ropes, not knowing exactly how he\u2019s feeling or if he\u2019s all right, because it\u2019s not just me now, there\u2019s our daughters, Isabelle and Charlotte, who need him too.\u201d
She has even gone as far as saying: \u201cHow would you like it if you had to sit there and watch me get punched like that?\u201d
I know I am going to love getting to know this woman more.\xa0 Someone who says what many of us are thinking.
As Covid-19 hits the sporting community hard, Jeff\u2019s April bout has been postponed and so the pressure mounts to not only from promoters to get this fight underway but also his plan of retiring by age 35 looms. \xa0
I cannot wait to chat to this unassuming couple about the 360 degree view of the entire\xa0 life of a fighter\u2026
Ok, you two, I wonder who\u2019s going to have more to say during this interview\u2026
Contact Jeff:
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0Facebook: @jeffTheHornetHorn
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0Instagram: @jeffhornboxer
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