Nelson Asofa-Solomona has promised to put George Burgess \u201con his ass\u201d just like the \u201cprincipal or teacher\u201d who laid out the former Rabbitohs premiership winner in a game of local footy last month.<\/p>\n
\u2018Big Nasty\u2019 and Burgess met face-to-face on Thursday, less than a week out from their heavyweight stoush on the Liam Paro vs Lewis Crocker world title fight undercard in Brisbane on June 24.<\/p>\n
A hot topic for Asofa-Solomona ahead of his third professional boxing match was Burgess\u2019 appearance at a charity rugby league match a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Burgess was spotted sending a winger flying into orbit, but was splayed out himself shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n
With Burgess taking numerous shots at Asofa-Solomona for hiding on the wing and shying away from head-to-head confrontations with front-rowers in his playing days, \u2018NAS\u2019 didn\u2019t back down.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently he ran at someone\u2019s principal or teacher,\u201d Asofa-Solomona said of Burgess\u2019 run.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s saying that I ran away from the big boys in the middle, but he\u2019s running at wingers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very hypocritical.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shown a clip of Burgess being sent to the turf, Asofa-Solomona quipped: \u201cThat guy looks like he got off the couch, rolled up to local footy and put Burgess on his ass.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna do the same on Wednesday \u2013 I\u2019m keen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t even look like he\u2019s been training or sparring. He\u2019s been playing footy and acting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m keen to inflict violence, that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. He\u2019s in my way and I have to get rid of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burgess has kept his boxing training a closely held secret, but finally allowed a few people to watch him throw hands at Thursday\u2019s open workouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling good, confident and we\u2019ve done the work,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve given maybe five per cent away, but we\u2019ve still got a few cards up our sleeve, so I\u2019m looking forward to pulling out a few tricks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re both going out there to knock each other out, so it\u2019s going to be fireworks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Wednesday\u2019s main event, Paro and IBF welterweight world champion Crocker conducted their open workouts, but the Northern Irishman\u2019s camp flat out refused to pose for a face-off photo.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all fight week anticipation, it\u2019s always good to get the boys together looking in each other\u2019s eyes,\u201d Paro\u2019s trainer, Alfie di Carlo said. \u201cNo disrespectful things, but I think it\u2019s always good to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor whatever reason, the boys decided they didn\u2019t want to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson Asofa-Solomona has promised to put George Burgess \u201con his ass\u201d just like the \u201cprincipal or teacher\u201d who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-744049","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\/744049","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=744049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}