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Jeff Horn wants to fight Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin

"I would like a big name, if we can. If we can get a Canelo – he’s a massive name in the sport and he’s beatable, he’s one of the best out there though, but he’s beatable as well."

Jeff Horn

 

By Anthony Cocks

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World-rated Australian Jeff ‘The Hornet’ Horn 19-1-1 (13) has revealed an ambitious plan to lure Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez 51-1-2 (35) or Gennady ‘Triple G’ Golovkin 38-1-1 (34) Down Under for a super-fight at middleweight.

 

The fight could be part of a big world title doubleheader featuring Horn’s Stretton Boxing Club stablemate and WBO 154-pound mandatory contender Dennis ‘Hurricane’ Hogan 28-1-1 (7) who is next in line to face undefeated Mexican world champion Jaime Munguia 31-0 (26).

 

Horn, the former WBO welterweight champion, is coming off a stunning first-round knockout of Anthony Mundine 48-9 (28) at a catch-weight of 156-pounds.

 

The 43-year-old Sydney veteran has called for an immediate rematch despite only lasting 96 seconds when the pair met at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on November 30.

 

But Horn, 30, dismissed all notion of a rematch in an interview with Sky News.

 

"It was a big shock to me, to be honest. I was expecting another big, hard probably 10-12 rounds with Mundine on that night, just like with [Manny] Pacquiao,” said Horn, who scored an unlikely victory over boxing’s only eight-division world champion at the same venue in July 2017.

 

"My second appearance at Suncorp Stadium, it was just a shock to me that I was able to get him that quickly.

 

"It just shows how hard I trained and, I guess – I don’t like putting Mundine down, but there’s a different level now between me and Mundine.

 

"He’s past his best now."

 

With the Mundine fight now behind him, Horn and his team are already plotting his next move. As unlikely as it sounds, the former Brisbane schoolteacher is considering the two biggest names at middleweight as his next opponents.

 

But few people expected Filipino icon and international superstar Pacquiao to come out to Australia to face the then little-known Horn either.

 

"I’ve just come out of holiday mode into training mode and I’m letting [trainer] Glenn [Rushton] and [promoter] Dean [Lonergan] figure out [which] opponents are ready, who’s available between the April-May time period," Horn said.

 

"I would like a big name, if we can. If we can get a Canelo – he’s a massive name in the sport and he’s beatable, he’s one of the best out there though, but he’s beatable as well.

 

"Even a Golovkin, going up to the middleweights. Who knows. I like now that I’ve got three divisions that I could potentially get a world title at – welterweight, super welterweight and middleweight."

 

The Queensland State Government has been instrumental in securing big fights for Horn in his hometown of Brisbane with the Annastacia Palaszczuk-led administration reportedly stumping up a combined $6.5 million for the Pacquiao and Mundine fights.

 

Horn’s fights have delivered a financial windfall for the State Government with the Pacquiao fight alone believed to have contributed $25 million to the Queensland economy. With this sort of high-profile patronage, it’s not impossible to conceive a scenario where another big name anywhere from 147-160-pounds heads south to Terra Australis.

 

Horn’s stablemate and sparring partner Hogan, who successfully turned back the spirited challenge of Perth-based Welshman Jamie Weetch 12-3 (5) in December, posed for photos in the ring after the fight with both Horn and Queensland Tourism Minister Kate Jones.

 

Coach Glenn Rushton, who trains both Horn and Hogan, is confident that the State Government will get behind the idea of a world title double bill.

 

“It is something that has never been done in Australian boxing, to have two fighters from the same gym fighting for world titles at the same weight,” Rushton said to the Courier Mail recently.

 

“I spoke to Kate Jones about it and she was keen on the idea.’’

 

Meanwhile WBO junior middleweight champion Munguia revealed this week that his goal is to ultimately unify the world titles at 154-pounds.

 

In order to do that, he will need to get past mandatory challenger Hogan first.

 

“After this fight, it looks like I will have a WBO mandatory bout against Dennis Hogan,” said Munguia, who is in the final stages of training camp for his third title defence when he takes on Japan’s Takeshi Inoue at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas on January 26.

 

“But I would still like to unify the titles at 154 pounds with the other champions. We will resolve anything that is put in front of us.”

 

If a world title doubleheader can be secured, it will be a major sporting coup for the Stretton Boxing Club, Duco Events and, of course, the Queensland State Government.

 

Watch this space.

 

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