By Amanda Collinge

What would you do if you were told you had 16 months to live? That was the harsh reality for Jill Emberson when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she's using her last moments to make a change.</s>(CNN) Manny Pacquiao has lost his WBO Welterweight title to a relative unknown in a shock defeat for the Philippines boxing hero.

Australian underdog Jeff Horn dispatched "Pac man" in an unanimous 12-round decision Sunday in a match dubbed the "Battle of Brisbane."

"The Hornet," a 29-year-old former schoolteacher, was considered an uneven match for veteran Pacquiao, who is considered one of the world's greatest boxers.

Horn and Pacquiao clash in a fight dubbed the "Battle of Brisbane."

Suncorp Stadium, packed with 50,000 people, erupted in cheers as Horn was declared the winner on points: 117-111, 115-113, 115-113.

However, it wasn't long before social media shot back with allegations the judges got it wrong.

Three-time world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis disputed the result on Twitter: "This is what's wrong with boxing. Horn was very game but I'm hard pressed to see how he could have won that fight by any stretch!"

With the fight, Pacquiao's career record falls to 59-7-2, while Horn now stands at 17-0-1 -- on wins, losses and draws.

Horn's supporters appeared to outnumber Pacquiao fans in the crowd, shouting "Hornet, Hornet, Hornet" as they willed their local hero to win.

A tally by Compubox put Pacquiao ahead with 182 landed punches over Horn's 92, though 73 of those were power punches, according to the stats.

Despite the outcry over the decision, Pacquiao was gracious in defeat.

"I didn't expect [him to be] that tough," he said after the fight. "It's OK. Part of the game. That's the decision of the judges. I respect that."

Both said they were open to a rematch.

Horn had his first bout in 2008, and in his third fight clinched the Queensland state title. In 2012, he made the quarterfinals at the London Olympic Games, making him the most successful Australian Olympic boxer in the past 20 years.

Last year, at the World Boxing Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Horn lost to the eventual gold medal winner Everton dos Santos Lopes.

His Facebook page describes him as a "very clean-cut, well brought up young man" who earned a Bachelor of Education degree to become a Physical Education teacher.

After the bout, Horn posted a message thanking his supporters.

"My team, one dream, we did it Brisbane! The new WBO Welterweight Champion of the world! Thank you for all the support."

Before the bout, few thought Horn could take down the 38-year-old Pacquiao, whose last fight and win was against American Jessie Vargas in November 2016.

Pacquiao said he'd trained hard for Sunday's fight, but it clearly wasn't enough.</s>BRISBANE, Australia (CBSNEWS/AP) – It went all the way and ended in a contentiously bitter loss — the opposite of what Manny Pacquiao’s handlers predicted for his WBO welterweight world title fight against Jeff Horn.

Pacquiao’s long-time trainer Freddie Roach tipped a “short and sweet” knockout win for the 11-time world champion in Sunday’s so-called “Battle of Brisbane,” but Horn got a unanimous points decision in his first world title fight — delighting the 51,052-strong crowd.

The 38-year-old Philippines senator arrived in Brisbane a week ahead of the fight with a chartered plane carrying more than a hundred supporters and as the hot favorite to beat Horn. He leaves without the WBO belt.

All three judges awarded it to Horn, with Waleska Roldan scoring it 117-111 and both Chris Flores and Ramon Cerdan scoring it 115-113.

Some critics slammed it as a hometown decision, saying the statistics had Pacquiao landing twice the number of power punches as Horn.

“That’s the decision of the judges. I respect that,” Pacquiao was quoted as saying by broadcaster ESPN. “We have a rematch clause, so no problem.”</s>Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines, left, clinches with Jeff Horn of Australia, during their WBO World Welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)

BRISBANE: Manny Pacquiao's camp today slammed the officials after the Filipino great lost his World Boxing Organisation welterweight title in a controversial unanimous decision to Australia's Jeff Horn.

"The referee was sketchy, the judges were crazy," fumed Pacquiao's strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune, who is a former Australian heavyweight champion.

"Manny lost the fight, but Jeff Horn looks like a pumpkin," Fortune added, referring to Horn who finished the fight with a badly swollen face and needing stitches over his right eye.

The three judges scored the fight 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113 to Horn.

"Those scores, that card? It should be the other way around," said Fortune.

The result that caused dismay on social media among boxing and sporting greats.

"This is what's wrong with boxing," tweeted former undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.

American football quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers was equally forthright.

Baseball and NFL legend Deion Sanders said: "@mannypacquiao was robbed! I'm really upset right now. Really. This is ignorant. God bless u Manny and all u do for your country. #Truth."

The fight statistics seemed to back the belief that Pacquiao had done more than enough to win.

Broadcaster ESPN said that Pacquiao had landed 182 punches to 82 from the challenger over the 12 rounds in front of more than 51,000 fans in Horn's home town of Brisbane.

Fortune, who once fought against Lewis and has been with Pacquiao since 2002, said Horn had been allowed to get away with a host of illegal tactics as he brawled his way to victory.

"That's what you get down here," he said of the tactics.

"You'd never get away with that anywhere else in the world. You'd be penalised points.

"I don't have a problem with dirty fighting and that's what it was, a fight. You do what you have to to win."

Two of the judges, Waleska Roldan and Chris Flores, were from the United States while the third, Ramon Cerdan, was from Argentina. The referee, Mark Nelson, was also from the US.

Pacquiao did not speak to media at the Suncorp Stadium after the fight but said on Philippines television: "We thought that we won this fight."

The 38-year-old said he would welcome a rematch against the Australian former schoolteacher.

"Well, it depends, there is no problem with me if there's a rematch," Pacquiao said. "It would be better if the rematch would be held in the Philippines. To the Filipino nation, thank you for the love and support that you showed me."</s>Brisbane, July 2: Australian professional boxer Jeff Horn clinched the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Welterweight World title, defeating the Philippines' Manny Pacquiao by an unanimous decision here on Sunday (July 2).

The 12-round fight at the Suncorp Stadium in front of more than 55,000 spectators ended with a controversial decision, with the three judges deciding in favour of the 29-year-old Horn, scoring 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113, reports Efe.

However, other experts and analysts following the bout said they thought Pacquiao had won the fight, with points oscillating between 117-111 and 116-112.

The match initially saw the 38-year-old Filipino taking the lead, brutally pummeling his opponent.

However Horn refused to go down, especially in the ninth round when the referee was on the verge of stopping the fight due to the punishment he was receiving.

The young Australian now has 17 victories including 11 knockouts, zero losses and one draw.

The match statistics left no doubt about Pacquiao's superior performance, as he landed 183 of his 574 punches (32 percent) compared to just 93 of 627 by Horn.

Pacquiao now has 59 victories, seven losses and two draws, and his latest defeat brings back memories of 2012 when he lost in a similar fashion to the American Timothy Bradley Junior, in a split decision that generated wide controversy in the boxing world.

Just as he did following his fight against Bradley Jr. -- whom he later defeated twice -- Pacquiao said he accepted the judges' decision.

"That's the decision of the judges, I respect that," the Filipino boxer said, adding that he would exercise the rematch clause in the contract.

Horn admitted it was a tough match and that he was ready for another face-off if there was a rematch.</s>Newcomer Jeff Horn stunned the world of boxing by defeating Manny Pacquiao on points and take the WBO Welterweight title in a bloodbath in Australia.

In a hugely controversial decision, the judges awarded Horn the fight even though he came off second-best by almost every measure in front of 50,000 in Brisbane's Lang Park on Sunday.

Horn landed just 15 per cent of his shots compared to Manny's 32 per cent, a total of 92 compared to 182.

It was the first time Pacquiao had been in the ring since defeating Jessie Vargas last November to reclaim the title for the third time in his glittering career.

His opponent Horn, a schoolteacher known as "The Hornet", was a relatively unknown compared to the 38-year-old World Champion.

Pacquaio's reputation as a modern great had him naturally installed as the clear favourite - but he was humbled by the judges' unanimous decision.

Horn, 29, gave everything, and went toe-to-toe with the Pac Man for most of the contest.

But despite his greater energy at time, it seemed he'd failed to land as many clean shots.

Both men were covered in blood by the end after an ugly contest.

Pacquiao suffered a gash to the hairline during an accidental clash of heads, and Horn suffered a cut to the cheek.

But in the ninth, the older man appeared to have showed his class.

The Filipino pummeled Horn with a series of excellent shots, leaving the right side of his opponent's face a mess.

Horn was left stumbling around the ring, barely able to raise his hands.

He somehow made it to the end of the round, but the referee immediately came to the Australian's corner and said he wanted to end it there and then.

Horn's corner pleaded for him to be allowed back in.

And the referee, perhaps mindful that Horn had been strong up until that point, allowed the fight to continue.

But he was sufficiently worried to warn Horn: "Show me something in the next round or I'm gonna stop the fight."

At that point it looked like Pacquiao was certain to get his first knockout since 2009.

But the brave underdog rallied, continuing to slug it out with Pacquiao and made it to the end of 12 rounds.

And to the shock of almost everyone watching - the judges awarded the contest to Horn, improving his record to 18-0-1.

He was adjudged the winner over the eight-division world champion by scores of 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113.

The Australian immediately said he would be willing to take on the Pac Man again in a rematch as pundits vented their fury at the decision.

"I wonder what fight they were watching?" said Stephen A Smith on ESPN.

"There is no excuse for something like this, it hurts the sport of boxing.</s>It went all the way and ended in a contentiously bitter loss, the opposite of what Manny Pacquiao’s handlers predicted for his WBO welterweight world title fight against Jeff Horn.

Pacquiao’s long-time trainer Freddie Roach tipped a “short and sweet” knockout win for the 11-time world champion in Sunday’s so-called ‘Battle of Brisbane,’ but Horn got a unanimous points decision in his first world title fight – delighting the 51,052-strong crowd.

The 38-year-old Philippines senator arrived in Brisbane a week ahead of the fight with a chartered plane carrying more than a hundred supporters and as the hot favourite to beat Horn. He leaves without the WBO belt.

All three judges awarded it to Horn, with Waleska Roldan scoring it 117-111 and both Chris Flores and Ramon Cerdan scoring it 115-113.

Some critics slammed it as a hometown decision, saying the statistics had Pacquiao landing twice the number of power punches as Horn.

“That’s the decision of the judges. I respect that,” Pacquiao was quoted as saying by broadcaster ESPN. “We have a rematch clause, so no problem.”

But Pacquiao’s conditioning trainer, the Los Angeles-based former Australian heavyweight Justin Fortune, was critical of the referee and the judging.

“Manny lost the fight, but Jeff Horn looks like a pumpkin. Those scores, that card?” he said, “It should be the other way.”

Fortune said Pacquiao should have taken any risk out of the equation.

“When you come into someone’s backyard, you need to really do a number on them or knock them out,” he said. “That’s boxing. You get given a gift sometimes, you get (swindled) sometimes. But when you come to someone’s house, you’re supposed to mess them up, make a statement. Never leave it in the judge’s hands.”

Horn started strongly and won at least three of the first five rounds on all three of the judge’s cards. But Pacquiao, after twice needing treatment for a cut on top of his head in the 6th and 7th rounds, appeared to dominate most of the rounds from the eighth.

He was close to finishing it in the 9th when he relentlessly pounded Horn and had him wobbling – to the point where referee Mark Nelson asked the 29-year-old former schoolteacher if he could continue – and could also have come out with the win.

Pacquiao didn’t attend the formal post-fight news conference, sending a spokesman to say he was getting treated for the cuts. He also declined to do any interviews in the dressing room.

Horn was confident he was always ahead on points, and was startled after the 9th when the referee asked if he was OK to continue.

“I felt buzzed for sure, but I’m the Hornet – I’ve got to come back,” Horn said. “I’m not a quitter. Australians aren’t quitters to start with. We’ve showed we’re winners.

“It was the battle of Brisbane, that’s for sure. Absolutely unbelievable.”

Co-promotor Bob Arum said it was a “close fight. It could have gone either way.”

“A couple of close rounds, but you can’t argue with the result,” he said. “I scored a lot of the early rounds for Jeff. Then I had Manny coming back in the middle. The 12th round, Jeff really won. If you give Manny the 11th, you have it a draw. You give Jeff the 11th, it’s 7-5.”

Roach had said earlier in the week that he’d think about advising Pacquiao to retire if he lost the fight, but they’re already considering a rematch.

Horn can’t see Pacquiao retiring any time soon.

“I’m sure he’ll want to come back. It was a close decision and I’m sure he’ll want to come back and prove himself,” he said.

Arum said there was a clause for a rematch, but he’d give it time before talking to Pacquiao about it.

“I don’t know Manny’s future position. Is he going to stay in politics and not continue in boxing? I don’t know, and he doesn’t know,” Arum said. “It’s unfair to ask him now.”

Pacquiao’s camp had talked about a rematch with Mayweather if he got past Horn, hoping to avenge his loss on points in the 2015 mega fight. That seems to be a long shot now.

Pacquiao entered the fight with a record of 59-6-2, but the last of his 38 wins by knockout was in 2009. Horn hadn’t lost any of his previous 17 professional fights, but had never encountered anybody with Pacquiao’s credentials.

“I take massive confidence from this fight,” Horn said. “I believed in myself before, now I’ve climbed the Pacquiao mountain.”

Roach said the quietly spoken Horn was “a little bit rougher than I thought he was. Maybe a little bit more physical.”

“Like every time you come you come out of a clinch in a headlock, something is wrong there,” he said. “I don’t know if the referee couldn’t control that or what it was.

“But, I thought it was a pretty close fight. I thought Manny had a real good round in the 9th – I thought it was maybe a two-point round – and I just told Manny, ‘give me one more of those and the fight’s over,’ but he just couldn’t do it. We lost the decision.”

Roach said he couldn’t judge the fight, given how close he was.

“I hear there’s a lot of people think it’s controversial, think Manny won, but it went the other way and we have to live with that.”

At Marawi City in the southern Philippines, where local officials organized a free public viewing to give some respite from the disastrous siege by militants, hundreds of people gathered to cheer for Pacquiao.

“Many couldn’t accept the result initially but the entertainment side of it provided a respite,” Marawi crisis committee spokesman Zia Alonto Adiong told The Associated Press. “The message of courage and resiliency, I think Manny Pacquiao provided that today.”</s>Jeff Horn (17-0-1, 11 KOs) used a roughhouse style of fighting tonight to beat WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 KOs) by a very questionable 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night in front of a huge crowd of 55,000 boxing fans at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia. Pacquiao suffered 2 bad cuts in the fight from a clash of head. Horn was cut over his right eye.

This was one of the most exciting fights of the year. In some ways, it’s not such a bad thing the judges scored the fight in a controversial manner, because the boxing fans can see Pacquiao and Horn do it again.

Horn head-butted Pacquiao a number of times, opening up cuts over his left eye and forehead. Horn was really hurt in the 9th. Pacquiao couldn’t get him out of there because he punched himself out. Pacquiao was missing over and over again with his left hands when he was trying to finish Horn.

The mistake on Pacquiao’s part was easing off in the 10th round and not going after Horn to knock him out. Pacquiao let Horn win that round. Pacquiao did more than enough to win rounds 11 and 12.

 Horn threw Pacquiao to the canvas at one point in the fight. Horn’s game plan was to obviously rough Paquiao up and use his size advantage, which was considerable. Horn was a lot bigger than Paquiao, and perhaps the biggest fighter that he’s ever fought before in terms of weight.

The scores were 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113, all for Horn. There is a lot of disagreement from boxing fans about the scoring for the fight, especially the 117-111 score. That judge seemed to be watching a different fight altogether. Boxing 247 had Pacquiao winning the fight by a couple of rounds. This is how things go when you’re the visiting fighter.

You’ve got to give Horn a lot of credit for starting fast and giving Paquiao problems with his bull rushing style of attacking Pacquiao. Horn used a lot of movement that seemed to cause Pacquiao problems, as he couldn’t figure him out. It was a really difficult style for Pacquiao to understand the way that Horn was fighting. By the time Pacquiao finally figured out how to beat Horn in the 9th, he had already given away a lot of rounds to the Australian fighter.

The way to beat Horn was for Pacquiao to attack him and hit him with a lot of shots. Pacquiao was only willing to fight in the way he needed to in round 9. In the other rounds, Pacquiao was getting the better of Horn with pot shots, and they were close. It’s understandable how the judges would score the fight for Horn.

Pacquiao said after the fight that he wants to fight Horn in a rematch. Horn says he wants the rematch as well. Pacquiao will need to be ready for Horn’s rough style of fighting for the rematch, as he wasn’t prepared tonight for that style of fighting. Horn was lowering his head and ramming Pacquiao in the face all night long. Horn was also hitting Pacquiao in the clinches. He was even hitting Pacquiao when he had him in headlocks. It was really dirty stuff. The pro-Horn crowd was even booing him in the last 3 rounds for his rough style of fighting.</s>Boxers Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and Australia's Jeff Horn stand together following their official news conference ahead of their WBO welterweight fight in Brisbane, Australia June 28, 2017. AAP/Dave Hunt/via REUTERS

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - While Manny Pacquiao's upcoming fight with unheralded Australian Jeff Horn is a world away from his blockbuster bouts against Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Oscar De La Hoya, the 'Battle of Brisbane' may help return the Filipino to pay-per-view royalty.

Pacquiao, one of the finest boxers of his generation, was defeated by Mayweather in an unanimous points decision in Las Vegas two years ago but the 38-year-old wants another shot at the American.

Mayweather retired in 2015 with a 49-0 record but the 40-year-old has agreed to a 12-round fight against mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor, a match-up dismissed by boxing purists as a circus.

Speculation of a potential Pacquiao-Mayweather rematch has rumbled in the background, with the Filipino's long-time trainer Freddie Roach saying that Mayweather had paid several visits to his Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles in recent months.

Roach told reporters in the leadup to Sunday's fight that Pacquiao wanted a rematch with Mayweather but he would have to put on a show against Horn to have any chance of getting it.

"To get Mayweather you have to look good. Against Horn, he has to be impressive. It's a good way to get his pay-per-view audience back."

While Pacquiao's WBO welterweight title defence will be pay-per-view on Australian television, ESPN's telecast will be beamed prime-time in the United States on Saturday.

While Lang Park, a stadium mostly used for professional rugby matches, is an unlikely venue for the Filipino senator's bid to stay relevant in the boxing world Pacquiao (59-6-2) still has huge box office appeal.

Enough for the local Queensland government to help bankroll a fight expected to draw over 50,000 spectators.

Pacquiao's camp had hoped to arrange a fight with Briton Amir Khan in the United Arab Emirates in May but that deal fell through over money problems, opening the door for Horn (16-0-1), a 29-year-old former schoolteacher who is undefeated against mainly obscure opponents.

Roach has predicted a knockout in a "short and sweet" fight.

"In all my years of boxing, I have never been as motivated and fired up as this fight," Pacquiao said on his arrival 'Down Under'.

Pacquiao regained the welterweight world title belt he lost to Mayweather when he beat Jesse Vargas in a unanimous decision in November, proving he still remains a formidable competitor.

But he has failed to win inside the distance since a 12th round TKO of Miguel Cotto in 2009.

While Roach quips that Pacquiao's embrace of Christianity has stopped the knockout blows from coming pundits have questioned whether the southpaw still has the power that accounted for the likes of De La Hoya, Shane Mosley and Ricky Hatton.

Horn's trainer Glenn Rushton has bullishly predicted the fight will go the distance but the former Olympian will go into his hometown bout a rank outsider.

Horn, who stands to earn a fraction of Pacquiao's guaranteed purse, win or lose, was unimpressed with Pacquiao's lack of interest in the pre-fight media conference this week where the Filipino spent much of the time playing with his phone.

"I can’t imagine him doing that at a Mayweather press conference,” Horn told local media.

"It definitely shows a bit of 'he doesn’t care' attitude to the fight.

"Maybe we’ll see he hasn’t put in all the hard work they say he has."</s>One of boxing’s living legends, Manny Pacquiao, returns to the ring to defend his WBO welterweight championship in a fight that will live stream on Saturday. He takes on Australian undefeated up-and-comer Jeff Horn in a fight that will live stream legally and for free around the world — except in Horn’s home country, where the live stream will be available only via pay-per-view. But Horn, despite never having lost a fight, has been in the ring as a pro only 17 times at the age of 29 — while Pacquiao, 38, will be contesting the 69th fight of his epic, 22-year career.

Pacquiao has lost only six times since his ring debut at the age of 16 in 1995. He has also drawn two fights to go with his 59 wins over many of the greatest fighters of his generation — including Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez, and Miguel Cotto. Horn has won 16 with a draw and no defeats, but, to date, has fought no opponents with serious international reputations. In fact, Horn’s entire career has been contested after Pacquiao’s stunning knockout defeat to Marquez in their fourth fight — a knockout that seemed to put Pacquiao’s career on a downward slope.

Nonetheless, Pacquiao will fight in front of the largest live crowd of his career when he and Horn enter the ring at 60,000-seat Suncorp Stadium in Horn’s hometown of Brisbane, Australia. Being promoted as “The Battle of Brisbane,” the fight will likely end up as then most-watched boxing event in Australia’s history.

To find out how to watch a free and legal live stream of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn welterweight championship fight, see the streaming information at the bottom of this article. The fight card is scheduled to get underway at 11 a.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time at Suncorp Stadium, with Pacquiao and Horn entering the ring at approximately noon, on Sunday, July 2.

In the United States, that start time for the undercard will be 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 6 p.m. Pacific, on the previous day, Saturday, July 1. In the United Kingdom, boxing fans are in for a late Saturday night, with the live stream getting underway at 2 a.m. British Summer Time.

Watch a preview of the fight from the ESPN First Take panel, Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman, in the video below.

Pacquiao has not scored a knockout since stopping Cotto in the 12th round in November of 2009. Horn has stopped all three of his most recent opponents, and has ended 11 of his 17 fights inside the distance.

Can the legendary Manny Pacquiao retain his WBO World Welterweight title by recording the 60th win of his career in his 69th fight, as he does battle down under for the first time in his remarkable 22-year career? Or will the inexperienced — but undefeated — Aussie, Jeff Horn, shock the boxing world with what would go down as one of the sport’s greatest upsets? To find out, watch a live stream using one of the options below.

To watch the Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn welterweight title fight live stream legally and for free in the United States, use the stream provided by WatchESPN at this link, or download the WatchESPN app to watch the big fight on mobile devices, as well as on set-top streaming devices such as the Roku, Apple TV, or Amazon Fire TV.

Fans who do not have credentials to log in to WatchESPN can watch the match via the Sling TV internet TV package at this link. The package bundles together a variety of channels, including ESPN, which carries the Pacquiao-Horn fight, and costs $20 per month. But Sling TV offers a seven-day free trial, so subscribers can choose whether or not to keep the service after watching Pacquiao battle Horn via live stream online.

A Spanish-language live stream of the fight is also available via WatchESPN at the above link as well. In the United Kingdom, a live stream of the fight can be viewed with ESPN Player, available at this link. In fact, the Pacquiao vs. Horn fight will stream via the online version of ESPN in any country where the network is available.

The one exception is Australia, where the fight will stream live only via online pay-per-view. Visit this link to purchase and view the Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn “Battle of Brisbane” for a price of $59.95 in Australian dollars — or about $46 in USD.
In boxing, Jeff Horn of Australia defeats Senator Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines to win the WBO world welterweight belt.