To many, WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn(18-0, 12 KOs) benefitted from some home cooking when he beat Manny Pacquiao in Australia last summer. However, Horn will not have that same home field advantage as he battles Terence Crawford(32-0, 23 KOs) on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
While Horn, 30, will have to go on the road to fight Crawford, he does believe he can get a decision victory in Vegas:
“I should be able to win a decision in America,” Horn said during a conference call on Tuesday. “If they are judging fairly and I am throwing more punches and landing more punches, then the judges should be seeing that and scoring me the rounds. The judges will be watching Terence Crawford and watching me as well. That can be the tricky part with judging if you try and watch two guys – you normally can put your eye on one guy and see what he’s doing. It will come down to the exchanges between me and Crawford and who they are watching.”
Crawford, 30 is making his first appearance at 147, so maybe, just maybe that might be the only advantage Horn may have coming into this fight, but we doubted “The Hornet” once, and he surprised us against Pacquiao. So, can he pull the rabbit out of the hat again against Crawford?
We’ll find out June 9!