dismissed his rival as \u201can actor\u201d<\/a>, the Storm enforcer intended the label as a jab. <\/p>\nBut Burgess \u2013 who is the son and grandson of bare-knuckle fighters \u2013 insists his work on screen has become an asset in the fight game.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Acting has been] a big part of me taking a boxing fight as well,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just finished a movie called Beast… and we got to shoot at a real fight in Thailand, experience what it means to be around fighters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat really gave me the juice for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m doing a boxing movie later in the year as well… and I just wanted to feel what it really felt like to be a boxer, and so I\u2019m trying to do that, and I\u2019m paying respect to the sport, and I\u2019m really enjoying it. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve got the bug for boxing, because once you start delving into it properly it\u2019s quite addictive.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked whether footy, boxing or acting is the most daunting, Burgess said the difference is smaller than people might think. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all similar feelings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get different levels of adrenaline for each one, but yeah, that\u2019s what we do it for. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in the business to entertain and give people what they want to see, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. I\u2019m here to entertain.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are certainly easier fights Burgess could have signed up for to scratch his boxing itch, but the former Souths man says this matchup made the most sense. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no other fight I would love more,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe competed against each other for our countries, our clubs, [we were] opposite positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great rivalry, and it\u2019s one that I think is going to be something that the fans are going to want to see in the ring. <\/p>\n
\u201cTwo guys, big guys, 130-40kgs plus, going at it. There\u2019s going to be a quarter of a ton in the ring.<\/p>\n
Wild finish ends in stoppage controversy | 01:35<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be fireworks, and I can\u2019t wait. I can\u2019t wait to throw hands with Nelson.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to do some serious harm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Burgess has admitted an unfinished piece of business from his rugby league days helped convince him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-709805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709805","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=709805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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