Former world champion Danny Green was very proud of his countryman, Jeff Horn, for showing a real lack of respect when he stepped in the ring with Manny Pacquiao this past weekend.

Before a crowd of over 50,000 at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Horn pulled off a major upset with a twelve round unanimous decision to capture Pacquiao's WBO welterweight title.

Horn, a 2012 Australian Olympian, raised his undefeated record to 17-0-1, and 11 knockouts.

In the early rounds, there were no feeling out process from Horn, who applied pressure and came out firing at the first bell.

"He was just so disrespectful to Manny Pacquiao. He showed him no respect, which is exactly what that young guy needed to do," Green told SEN's The Run Home.

“That’s a tough thing for a young guy like Jeff Horn to do. He’s a lovely guy too, who would obviously love Manny Pacquiao and admire and respect him for what he’s done. But if he had any respect for Manny Pacquiao he couldn’t have performed like he did. He’s Manny Pacquiao but when the bell goes he’s nothing but a guy trying to knock me out and you’ve got to try and take it over. He was throwing him to the ground and cracking him in the side of the head when he was there in close.

"He needed to be a real pig in there and show absolutely no respect, regardless of how great a champion Manny Pacquiao is - and a good guy too. You can't afford to give your opponent respect otherwise he's going to take advantage of it. Jeff bullied him... I take my hat off to him. He's a great young guy. He's a hungry, tough young fighter. He was a pigdog in there and it was beautiful to see."

There were many overseas observers who saw the outcome as controversial and felt Pacquiao was robbed of a win on the scorecards. Green had scored the fight from ringside in favor of Horn and agrees with the judges - who issued tallies of 115-113, 115-113 and 117-111. 

“I thought Jeff Horn won the fight. I was lucky enough to sit literally right on the ring where you could see it all and you could hear it. He was very, very damaging. Jeff dominated the first part of the fight and Manny came home strong but Jeff did enough to score, I feel, more rounds than Manny Pacquiao. A fight is 12 rounds, a championship fight is 12 rounds, not four or five or six. I gave it to Jeff by one or two rounds," Green explained.