Meet the 'wizard' who turned bullied teen Jeff Horn into a world champion: ****** Thanks for watching, subscribe for more videos: ****** Jeff Horn vs Terence Crawford: trainer Glenn Rushton coaches protege for victory By Alex McClintock With its foam-panelled floor, piles of worn gloves and heavy bags swinging imperceptibly in the Brisbane heat, the Stretton Boxing Club is a typical fight gym in almost every respect.You can't help but notice it's attached to a to a colossal Hollywood Hills-inspired mansion, though. Perhaps it's the concrete fountain in the shape of four leaping dolphins that gives it away. "You must be looking for the wizard," says a young boxer as I walk through the door. He leaps up and darts into the cavernous house in search of his master.A few minutes later, Glenn Rushton emerges looking very like a Queensland sort of wizard, in a short-sleeved shirt undone to the third button.Rushton is a fourth-degree karate black belt, property developer and millionaire fund manager. He also happens to be the trainer of World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion Jeff Horn, who walked into this gym as a bullied teenager 11 years ago. 'Jeff was a bit nerdy looking'"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear," Rushton says in his gravelly voice."Jeff came in, he was a bit nerdy looking; I could see why he'd get picked on. Two years later, Rushton told Horn he could take him to the Olympics. It was an extraordinary statement: Rushton had only recently switched his focus from training martial arts to boxing. Horn was already 20, old to be starting out as a boxer, and was yet to have a fight."I said to Jeff, I wish I'd met me when I was your age. But you have," Rushton recounts."You've met a mentor, a guide who has felt all your pains, everything you've ever felt, someone who has the technical knowledge and the drive and the belief.Incredibly, the wizard's prophecy came true. Horn became the Australian amateur welterweight champ, made it to the quarter finals of the London Olympics and last year shocked the world by beating Manny Pacquiao, one of the greatest boxers of the modern era, in front of 50,000 people at Lang Park. The story is the stuff of Hollywood. Indeed, Rushton says he is working on a movie adaptation to be produced in Queensland. Who would play the coach? "I'm leaning towards someone like Hugh Jackman," he says.For his part, Horn is quick to credit his coach's powers of motivation."He gives me inspiration and confidence," says Horn. "He always believes in my ability and what he teaches me. He knows that if I can do what he says in there, I can beat anyone in the world. That's inspiring." Holding the dreamSitting next to Rushton, looking into his unwavering blue eyes, the whole story is somehow more believable than it should be. Confidence radiates from him. His utterances have the air of mantras. The way he tells it, his life has been a Horatio Alger story.Rushton describes his family situation growing up as "complicated". His parents split when he was a toddler, and today he has 19 siblings, most of them half brothers and sisters. As a child, he #Meet, #wizard, #turned, #bullied, #teen, #JeffHorn, #into, #world, #champion #glennrushton, #terencecrawford, #jeffhorn, #boxing, #mannypacquiao, #welterweight, #jeffhornvsterencecrawford, #jeffreyhornaustralianboxer