Asofa-Solomona signs massive deal \u2014 and it\u2019s not in league or union<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cYou look around the (NRL) rosters and there\u2019s no-one quite like me,\u201d Asofa-Solomona continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely the big man is being phased out of the game\u2014which is sad, there should always be a space for guys like myself, six foot seven, 130kg, but it is what it is and ultimately I just didn\u2019t adapt well to the game (as it has changed).\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018It was a bit of a joke by that point\u2019 says Nelson<\/p>\n
Explaining more of his reasons for leaving the Storm after 11 seasons, Asofa-Solomona admitted he\u2019d fallen out of love with rugby league.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver time things change, people change and just being in and out of the team, also missing a couple of grand finals really hurt,\u201d he said, referring to consecutive seasons that ended prematurely through suspension.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first one was tough, I thought I was really hard done by, it was just a freakish accident (high tackle on Lindsay Collins in the opening moments of the 2024 NRL preliminary final), then by the time the second one came around I just accepted it\u2014I was over it, it was a bit of a joke by that point.\u201d<\/p>\n
While acknowledging he\u2019ll miss the Storm, Asofa-Solomona explained the time was right to begin a new athletic career in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to miss the joint (Melbourne), I\u2019ve had a lot of great memories there, but it\u2019s just on to the next chapter now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation was quite mutual, the club wanted to part ways and I just thought it was time as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess with Paps (Ryan Papenhuyzen) leaving, and Jonah (Pezet), my situation was a bit validated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days after officially announcing his switch to professional boxing, Nelson Asofa-Solomona has revealed his genuine fears for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-331298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331298","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=331298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}