if \u2018Big Nasty\u2019 can dispose of George Burgess in their heavyweight showdown this Wednesday night at Pat Rafter Arena<\/a>.<\/p>\nAsofa-Solomona\u2019s promoters No Limit have Lodge slated as a potential opponent for a grudge match in December, once the front-rower\u2019s NRL season is over with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
Lodge, the former Broncos hardman, claims Asofa-Solomona has verbally agreed to fight him.<\/p>\n
The 200cm Asofa-Solomona has won his first two professional fights, although his most recent victory over former Queensland Origin prop Jarrod Wallace was far from impressive.<\/p>\n
Lodge is also unbeaten from two professional bouts and scoffed at Asofa-Solomona\u2019s ambition to win an Australian heavyweight title, pledging to knock him out.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully George Rose (No Limit boss) can build a cage and throw us both in there,\u201d Lodge said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut us in a cage and only one of us can come out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be happy to bash him and then I would give boxing away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t see myself doing it full-time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just see someone like him talking the talk and I want to go in there and put on a proper show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to fight him. I am ready to go. I just have to get through this footy season and I will jump in with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has already said he would fight me so he can\u2019t go back on his word now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old Lodge has shown impressive power in his two wins, including his most recent victory over Jonasa Kavika in March 2025, flooring the Fijian with a monster right hand.<\/p>\n
Asofa-Solomona boasts a savage right upper cut but Lodge said he lacks the \u2018ticker\u2019 and work rate to succeed long-term in boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up playing with him,\u201d Lodge said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know his work ethic and I know what\u2019s between his ears.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t work hard. I\u2019ve got him covered in several areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously I\u2019m busy with my commitments to the Cowboys and the NRL but the season is over I will be excited for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you watch his last fight, \u2018J Wal\u2019 tags him with a backhand, he flicks his chin, no power, and Nelson\u2019s legs started wobbling.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can train all the muscles you want but you can\u2019t lift weights for your chin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a good chin. Nelson doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has been mouthing off towards me so let\u2019s settle it in the ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe he likes getting hit and I will hit him hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood on him, he is doing his thing, he is now a full-time boxer and I hope he is enjoying himself, but hopefully we are on a collision course and I can knock him out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Lodge has launched a stinging attack on Nelson Asofa-Solomona and offered to fight him in a cage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-751530","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\/751530","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=751530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}