Jeff Horn's journey from a timid, bullied teenager to an international lord of the boxing ring reads like the script of a feel-good blockbuster movie.
His unlikely transformation from a nervous, "nerdy little kid" into a World Boxing Organization welterweight champion is legendary in Australian sport.Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao to win the world title at Lang ParkPacquiao has his own remarkable story on the road to boxing glory, growing up in poverty, at times having to sleep rough.
He's collected more than $500 million in a celebrated career, the only boxer in history to have won 12 major world titles in eight different weight divisions. At the time, Horn says, he couldn't go for a reflective walk in a rainforest without worrying he would be recognised."You just want to be a hermit and close yourself in. I didn't like the constant barrage that I would get.
"It's crazy thinking back to me at high school, and to primary school as well and then to thinking what I've done now in the boxing ring and the boxing world," he says.'I had bad thoughts about myself'
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