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Agence France-Presse

Australian Jeff Horn has no doubt that he was a deserving conqueror of Manny Pacquiao, but believes only a rematch will settle the controversy once and for all.
Horn stunned the boxing world with a unanimous 12-round decision over Pacquiao in Brisbane on July 2, a hotly contested result that triggered an outcry in the Philippines.
The World Boxing Organisation moved to quell the controversy by rescoring the fight with a different set of judges – who found that Horn was the winner by seven rounds to five.
“If it had come back and they’d said I hadn’t won, I would have still felt like I had won,” the 29-year-old former schoolteacher said. “But to have them say to everyone else that had doubted it that I definitely won the fight gives me a sense of relief.
“I feel like I’ve defended the title already and I’ve only had it for a week.

“I kind of feel it has been put to bed and that I definitely won the fight because it has been rescored.
“But people are always going to have their opinions and you’re not going to be able to change those. So I guess the only way you’re going to be able to do it is to have a rematch. And I think I would do better a second time.”
Fair and square: WBO review rules Jeff Horn beat Manny Pacquiao in disputed fight
Horn, meanwhile, said he had been stung by the criticism from veteran trainer and boxing broadcaster Teddy Atlas.
In a post-fight interview shortly after Horn clambered out of the ring in Brisbane, Atlas told the Australian he believed he had been wrongly awarded the fight.
“I was shocked at Teddy Atlas when he said straightaway after I won that he didn’t think I’d won,” Horn said. “I was like, ‘Thanks. Biggest fight of my life and you reckon I lost.’
“That was a bit heartbreaking, especially because I felt like I won. Inside my heart I felt I won, but when you hear people like Teddy say it to my face was a little bit heartbreaking. I lost a little bit of respect for Teddy after that.”
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Pacquiao, who has an option for a rematch, has indicated he plans to continue his boxing career but has not said yet signalled his intentions to veteran promoter Bob Arum.
“I went in after the fight when he was being stitched up and I told him don’t make any decisions for a couple of weeks,” Arum said. “I would think he would probably not want to retire on a defeat.”

The legendary promoter said any rematch in Australia would likely be held in November, with the Docklands Stadium in Melbourne the likeliest venue.
A return to Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, the venue of the first fight, was unlikely because of the possibility of rain.
WBO will rescore Manny Pacquiao defeat by Jeff Horn, but result still stands
“If it was Brisbane you couldn’t do it in Suncorp because of the risk of rain,” Arum said. “You’d have to do it in a 14,000-seat arena.
“But in Melbourne, you have a place that’s bigger than Suncorp, which has a retractable roof so we don’t have to worry about intense heat or rain.”


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Jeff Horn celebrates defeating Manny Pacquiao in Brisbane. Photo: AFP

In this Sunday, July 2, 2017, file photo, Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines reacts after his loss to Jeff Horn of Australia, during their WBO World Welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File)

Jeff Horn, right, of Australia watches Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines falls on the mat during their WBO World welterweight title bout in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, July 2, 2017. Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight world title to Horn in a stunning, unanimous points decision in the Sunday afternoon bout billed as the Battle of Brisbane in front of more than 50,000 people. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)

WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn, of Australia, gestures while his wife, Jo, looks on in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Horn feels vindicated by a judging panel's confirmation of his unanimous-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao on July 2, 2017, in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/Greg Beacham)

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Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines reacts after his loss to Jeff Horn of Australia, during their WBO World Welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, July 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)

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In this November 2016 file photo, Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao raises his WBO welterweight championship belt during a news conference upon arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay city, southeast of Manila, Philippines. Pacquiao, 38, will add another fight to his long resume when he takes on Australian welterweight Jeff Horn on April 23 at a venue to be decided. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 06, 2016 shows Boxer Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines celebrating after beating Jessie Vargas with a unanimous decision to win the WBO welterweight championship at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. WBO welterweight world champion Pacquiao said November 22 he felt like a young man in his twenties and would relish another crack at Floyd Mayweather. The Filipino icon, 37, made a winning comeback from his brief retirement earlier this month and said he was in great shape to try to avenge his defeat to Mayweather last year in the richest fight in boxing history. / AFP PHOTO / John GURZINSKI

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Win for Australian earlier this month is verified by independent review, but Docklands Stadium in Melbourne is already been suggested for second fight in November
