{"id":311099,"date":"2025-11-27T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311099\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:04:10","slug":"zac-lomax-considering-move-to-boxing-or-mma-amid-uncertainty-over-r360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311099\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Lomax considering move to boxing or MMA amid uncertainty over R360"},"content":{"rendered":"

The coach of UFC champion Alex Volkanovski<\/a> believes former Eels star Zac Lomax<\/a> could have career in combat sports as the 26-year-old weighs up his next career move.<\/p>\n

Lomax, who has spoken of his love for MMA in the past, walked away from Parramatta one year into a four-year $2.6 million contract amid reports he will sign with R360, which will reportedly kick off in October next year.<\/p>\n

But without his NRL contract and uncertainty about the details regarding the rebel competition, Lomax has been linked with a move to French Rugby ahead of the R360 season<\/a> – or, he could potentially take to the ring or the octagon.<\/p>\n

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Lomax has close links with Volkanovski since his days at the Dragons and has been spotted training inside the UFC star’s gym in Wollongong this week, leading to questions about a possible switch to an entirely new sport.<\/p>\n

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Zac Lomax playing for the Eels in 2025.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Volkanovski’s trainer Joe Lopez said he has worked with Lomax for some time, and believes the former NRL star is “100 per cent interested” in stepping foot inside the ring.<\/p>\n

“Exactly what happens will be up to Zac,” Lopez told Fox Sports.<\/p>\n

“But I just know that when he isn’t training for footy, he’s always here doing stuff with us.<\/p>\n

“When it comes to world class boxers, no not yet. But if Zac was going to fight, say, another couple of NRL players, I think he smokes ’em.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I’ve had a few NRL boys in here do some sparring and they’re all tough. “But the difference with Zac, he has some real talent.<\/p>\n

“I actually think no matter what sport this kid applies himself to, he would do well.<\/p>\n

“When it comes to fighting too, Zac has a very good eye for judging distance, which is also something Volk had from the very start.<\/p>\n

“That’s really hard to train.”<\/p>\n

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UFC champ Alexander Volkanovski.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Lomax spoke of his love for MMA during a chat with former UFC champ Rob Whittaker this week, revealing that combat sports were in the back of his mind when he was having drama over a positional change at the Saints.<\/p>\n

“Being down in Wollongong I was fortunate enough to do a bit of training with Volk and his coach and I just fell in love with is straight away,” he said on Fox Sports.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been a boxing fan since I was a kid but rubbing shoulders with those guys I fell in love with the UFC. I remember talking to my family a little bit about things.<\/p>\n

“I was weighing up different options and thinking about where my passions were leaning.<\/p>\n

“And again, boxing and MMA is something I love.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The coach of UFC champion Alex Volkanovski believes former Eels star Zac Lomax could have career in combat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-311099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}