Jeff Horn or Jeffrey Christopher Horn Jr. is an Australian professional boxer who held the WBO welterweight title from 2017 to 2018.
Jeff represented Australia in the 2012 Olympics and reached the quarterfinals of the light-welterweight bracket. Also, he holds the WBO welterweight title for a year i.e. from 2017 to 2018.
Horn lives in Brisbane with his father Jeff Horn Sr. who is a builder and his mother Liza Dykstra who works in the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. Horn’s grandfather fought in exhibition boxing matches in the Queensland outback during the 1930s.
Horn completed his bachelor of education degree from Griffith University and worked as a physical education teacher for Pallara State School in Brisbane. In school life, Horn was a victim of bullying and this is the reason he started boxing to defend himself.
Relationship between Ben Horn and Jeff Horn
Ben Horn is the younger brother of Jeff Horn and both brothers are professional Boxers in Australia.
As a kid, Jeff and Ben used to have bedroom brawls and used a lost count of many scraps leading one of them usually wound up in tears. From the bedroom brawls to the professional Boxers, Ben was always by his side of Jeff embracing him in the ring.
Horn brothers also shared the stage swapping cornerman duties for the professional debut against Lachlan O’Shea. Also, Ben was in Jeff’s corner when Jeff stunned the world against Manny Pacquiao following his first World Boxing Organisation title defense.
Ben was also there belting a heavy bag when Jeff prepared for his bout with American sensation Terence Crawford inside Kevin Barry’s Las Vegas gym in June. Horn brothers came a long way since they shared a room in Brisbane’s southwest suburb of Pallara.
Background of Jeff Horn and his family
A 34 years old Jeff Horn is a professional Boxer from Australia who first learned boxing to defend himself from bullying.
Jeff used to become a victim of bullying and to defend himself from bully he started learning boxing which made him a professional boxer afterward. Horn won his first Australian title in 2009 and repeated the feat in 2011.
Horn also won the silver medal at Gee-Bee Tournament in Helsinki and compete in the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku where he lost to champion Everton Lopes. In 2012, Jeff became third in the Australian title and first in Oceania Title which lead him to London, Olympics.
Jeff comes from a working-class family as his father, Jeff Horn Sr. is a builder, and his mother, Liza Dykstra is in Saint Vincent de paul’s Society. Jeff’s grandfather also belongs to the boxing field as he fought in exhibition boxing matches in the Queensland outback during the 1930s.
Jeff is married to Joanna Horn and has three daughters named Isabella Kate Horn, Charlotte Lucie Horn, and Elizabeth Mae Horn. Jeff also talks about how much his wife does not like his fighting and threatened him to take up boxing.
Detail about Jeff Horn’s Net Worth and where he is living?
An Australian professional boxer, Jeff Horn’s Net worth is estimated at around $6 Million according to sources and reports.
Jeff’s primary source of income is boxing. According to the reports, Jeff receives $150000 as a straight fight salary. Also, Jeff has received career highest purse money of $1.5 Million from the fight against Terence Crawford.
As with any other sports, boxing is a business and has a chunk of money for management and promoter fees, Jeff’s support staff, and taxes, according to Jeff’s camp.
Although Horns’ family home is upgraded ever since Jeff’s rise to notoriety, Jeff and his family live in Sunnybank, a rather modest neighborhood in Brisbane’s south.
Also, Jeff’s family lives a basic life as his wife said there hasn’t been much of a change as Jeff’s aunt still cuts her hair in her kitchen or the backyard.