{"id":180934,"date":"2025-09-30T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180934\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:26:09","slug":"manny-pacquiao-was-shockingly-beaten-by-ex-schoolteacher-who-earned-just-500000-for-life-changing-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180934\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao was shockingly beaten by ex-schoolteacher who earned just $500,000 for life-changing fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manny Pacquiao has suffered eight losses in his pro career, but a huge upset might be the most controversial one.<\/p>\n

Watching Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson set Pacquiao on a path<\/a> that would lead to incredible success in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n

Similar to \u2018Iron Mike\u2019, \u2018PacMan\u2019 has produced some iconic highs throughout his career, along with some disappointing setbacks from time to time.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, who is still targeting another return<\/a> to the ring, was the victim of scorecards that were heavily scrutinized after he was matched with a relatively unknown fighter.<\/p>\n

\"MannyPhoto by Steve Marcus\/Getty ImagesJeff Horn pulled off a huge upset against Manny Pacquiao which was highly controversial <\/p>\n

After Manny Pacquiao bounced back from his loss to Floyd Mayweather<\/a> with a pair of wins in 2016, he was targeting another big matchup.<\/p>\n

He changed direction from the opponent that he was initially being lined up for after his fans voted that Amir Khan should be his next target in a poll.<\/p>\n

When this bout fell apart during the negotiations, Pacquiao<\/a> and his team turned back to the other opponent that was put forward, Jeff Horn.<\/p>\n

\"MannyPhoto by Chris Hyde\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 16-0-1 Australian was far from a major name, having only stepped back from his job as a physical education teacher shortly before the bout came together.<\/p>\n

Horn, who reportedly earned $500,000 for the bout compared to the guarantee of at least $10 million that his opponent pocketed, shockingly went on to beat Pacquiao in July of 2017.<\/p>\n

Fans and the media were incredibly critical of the new WBO welterweight champion\u2019s win, with the fight taking place in Australia being a notable talking point.<\/p>\n

Despite the likes of Teddy Atlas, among many others, clearly scoring the fight for Pacquiao, the WBO\u2019s rescoring of the bout still had Horn winning by seven rounds to five.<\/p>\n

Jeff Horn lost his title to Terence Crawford the following year before retiring in 2023<\/p>\n

While a rematch was lined up, Manny Pacquiao pulled out of his September 2017 rematch with Jeff Horn due to commitments in his home country of the Philippines. <\/p>\n

Horn, on the other hand, went on to successfully defend the title once in Australia before losing it the following year to Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After this TKO loss, the Australian only competed four more times before announcing his retirement in 2023 due to other commitments that he wanted to dedicate himself to.<\/p>\n

Horn, in some ways, went back to his previous profession by becoming a national ambassador for an anti-bullying charity, where he speaks to teachers and students while drawing from his own experiences that initially led him to boxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has suffered eight losses in his pro career, but a huge upset might be the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2795,85,23904],"class_list":["post-180934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-sports","tag-throwbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}