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Important update on 1476AMThe big number Horn was offered to make boxing comeback
SEN • April 26th, 2026 4:26 pm
Australia’s Jeff Horn is one of the nation’s greatest boxers in the modern era.
The now 38-year-old rose to prominence out of nowhere after upsetting the legendary Manny Pacquiao in Brisbane to win the WBO welterweight title in 2017.
Even if the former school teacher lost that belt one year later to Terence Crawford in Las Vegas after one successful defence against Gary Corcoran, his place in boxing history was secured.
He’d take six more fights after climbing that Pacquiao mountain, and it was his 24th and final fight against fellow Australian Tim Tszyu in 2020 when Horn knew he was done.
Horn says the realisation came to him during the fight that it was time to step away with a record of 20-3-1.
“I felt when I was in that fight with Tim, I was like, ‘I don't have the passion anymore’,” Horn told This is Your Journey – thanks to Tobin Brothers.
“I knew I didn't want to win as bad as he did when I was in there with him. That's a big sign, I guess, but for a while there I was like, ‘I didn't want to finish on that’.
“So, I was like, ‘Maybe I'll go back again and take another fight if they’re offering me a million bucks to come back and fight again’, but that never happened.
“It wasn't like I was saying I was done in the moment, but I knew he wanted it more than I did.
“He was younger and hungrier, and I knew at that point, even though I didn't kind of voice it after the fact, I could feel I didn't have the hunger anymore to fight the way I used to and put my body on the line.”
As one of Australia’s biggest boxing names, promoters were always going to try and bring him out of retirement.
So how much exactly was he offered to get back in the ring?
“Yeah, I guess I said if someone gave me a million bucks to come back, I would have considered it,” Horn said.
“But they went just a little bit lower, they offered me $750,000 to come back, and I was just like, ‘Nah, not doing it’.
“So, I did have that carrot dangled, and they thought I was probably going to budge just a little bit, but I was done.
“I knew what my limit was.”
Horn discussed his big fights, career journey and much more on this week’s episode.
