Nicolson v Turner guide, full card and everything you need to know for Aussie star\u2019s return home<\/a><\/p>\nIf you can\u2019t see the live blog below, tap here.<\/p>\n
Full fight card<\/p>\n
Skye Nicolson vs. Mariah Turner; Super bantamweight<\/p>\n
Teremoana Teremoana vs. Bowie Tupou; Heavyweight<\/p>\n
Jake Wyllie vs. Miles Zalewski; Lightweight<\/p>\n
Andrew Hunt vs. Benjamin Hussain; Super welterweight<\/p>\n
Faavesi Isaako vs. Jesse Bolt; Lightweight<\/p>\n
Paul Gallen in action. Picture: Thomas LissonSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
REVEALED: TOP PROMOTER\u2019S $4M PLAY FOR GALLEN… AND A POSSIBLE NRL ASSAULT<\/p>\n
Eddie Hearn has revealed he once offered Paul Gallen \u201cmillions\u201d to join his famed Matchroom Boxing stable \u2013 while also giving his take on the chances of Matchroom signing an NRL player to rival new crossover star Nelson Asofa-Solomona. <\/p>\n
Speaking with Fox Sports Australia in Melbourne this week, the popular UK promoter has confirmed the longtime whisper that he once made a significant play to make a pair of showdowns between Gallen and duel international Sonny Bill Williams.<\/p>\n
While the pair eventually threw down last year, the Matchroom offer came back when Gallen was in a crossover prime that saw his fights gross $25 million across three years. <\/p>\n
Yet despite the revelation, Hearn says his new push into the Australian boxing scene is unlikely to include fighting footballers, even despite No Limit\u2019s new poster boy Asofa-Solomona having become an overnight heavyweight favourite. <\/p>\n
Widely regarded as the world\u2019s biggest fight promoter, Hearn has jetted into Melbourne this week for the first of what will be seven Matchroom shows over the next year, and as part of a new broadcasting deal.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday night at the Melbourne Pavilion, Skye Nicolson defends WBC interim gold against Mariah Turner, while the co-main sees Teremoana Jnr looks to take his unbeaten heavyweight tear to 11 straight.<\/p>\n
Fiery feud lights up press conference! | 02:40<\/p>\n
As part of his new Australian push, Hearn has already confirmed himself keen to make huge fights Down Under for both Nicolson and Teremoana, while also expressing interest in potential opponents for both Tim and Nikita Tszyu — including his American superstar Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis and new IBF champ Josh Kelly.<\/p>\n
Hearn\u2019s IBF welterweight champ Lewis Crocker will also face Queenslander Liam Paro this year. <\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the English promoter has expressed interest in a 5V5 showdown with counterparts No Limit, and is keen to put another client, Justis Huni, into either a Trans Tasman showdown against Joseph Parker or bout with American Jarrell \u2018Big Baby\u2019 Miller.<\/p>\n
And while announcing Matchroom keen to sign several domestic fighters moving forward, Hearn has also this week finally opened up on that play, several years ago, to have \u2018Gal\u2019 join a stable including the likes of Anthony Joshua and Katie Taylor.<\/p>\n
While unsure of exact timing, Hearn confirmed he did once try to make a crossover bout between Gallen and New Zealand duel international Sonny Bill Williams.<\/p>\n
While the fight eventually took place last year, Gallen was by then four years removed from the insane seven-month run that saw him beat UFC legend Mark Hunt, former world champion Lucas Browne and go 10 rounds with Justis Huni before being stopped late. <\/p>\n
And it was also towards the end of that same year, 2021, when the NSW Origin star first revealed to us how Williams was effectively running from an $8 million Matchroom proposal that would involve the pair fighting in two headliners the following year.<\/p>\n
Fury to face Joshua later this year | 00:41<\/p>\n
Speaking only days out from a December bout against Darcy Lussick, the Cronulla premiership hero had explained how, with the DAZN streaming service moving into Australia, Hearn wanted himself and SBW to throw down twice within the ensuing 12 months \u2013 and was offering each man $2 million per showdown to make it happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m f\u2026ing filthy,\u201d Gallen said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re talking about life changing money – two fights, $4 million each.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho else is getting that sort of cash? There are world champions who don\u2019t get that money.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked about the story this week, Hearn confirmed its validity, although wasn\u2019t sure the price tag was that high.<\/p>\n
Quizzed on offering Gallen $4 million, Hearn laughed: \u201cThat sounds a little expensive, but I do recall an offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was many years ago. Maybe five years ago I think when DAZN was just coming into the market here.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd of course, we\u2019ve been looking at Australia for a long time now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always believed there is real potential here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey [DAZN] were looking for something and I definitely made an offer for that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
So as for how much he offered the NRL warhorse?<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t remember off the top of my head,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it was definitely a few million.\u201d<\/p>\n
So what chance Hearn now jumps into the crossover space again?<\/p>\n
Especially given, right now, there is plenty of noise emanating from the shock switch into the heavyweight division of Asofa-Solomona, aka Big Nasty. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you, I\u2019d rather not,\u201d Hearn said of having footballers fight on his Matchroom shows in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never blame anyone for doing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause at the end of the day you have to produce the numbers. And if you can produce the numbers with that, so be it.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlus, it\u2019s not like Paul Gallen was a Youtuber.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went in and had a proper tear up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose fights of his were fun to watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if we\u2019re going to do this in Australia, we need to do it properly and we need to give things a real chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tszyu & Fenech open up on Bombshell move | 22:53<\/p>\n
Ironically, Hearn\u2019s newest Australian star, unbeaten KO King Teremoana Jnr, actually grew up in western Sydney idolising Gallen, the footballer.<\/p>\n
Should he win on Wednesday night against Tupou, the 120kg wrecking ball then wants to go straight into a fight for against Australian heavyweight champ Stevan Ivic.<\/p>\n
Gallen also twice fought for the national heavyweight strap, losing to Huni and Kris Terzievski.<\/p>\n
Speaking with Fox Sports Australia this week, Teremoana Jnr credited Gallen for helping create the exposure a rising heavyweight like himself is getting now.<\/p>\n
And as for why he always idolised the backrower growing up?<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause even when we were getting belted by Queensland, he was always there ripping in,\u201d the 2024 Olympian explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSame as whenever things got ugly on the field, he was always right there on the front lines, too.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Laughs] And this was back in the days where you could throw a punch, so that always made things fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
And as for what the man Hearn says will become a world heavyweight champion thought of Gallen\u2019s own time in boxing?<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, I loved what he did,\u201d the 28-year-old continued. \u201cBecause Gal brought so many eyeballs to the sport of boxing, which in turn has had a huge impact for us fighters.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously in NSW and Queensland, it\u2019s all about the NRL. Everyone watches it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd given everything that Gal did, I can only say \u2018thank you so much\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember too, that he took Justis Huni 10 rounds. Paul Gallen got into the ring with one of Australia\u2019s best fighters and went 10 rounds which is an incredible statement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn has revealed he once offered Paul Gallen \u201cmillions\u201d to join his famed Matchroom Boxing stable \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-637906","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\/637906","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=637906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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