leap from an Uber after noticing a man readying to jump from an overpass onto railway tracks below<\/a>.<\/p>\nSo emotional was everything that took place next, Burgess would later phone his wife in tears.<\/p>\n
But only after spending more than 40 minutes talking with the man, providing him money, and exchanging details so that he could act as his emergency contact over the coming days.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause everyone needs support,\u201d Burgess said. \u201cAnd he doesn\u2019t have anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Which isn\u2019t a yarn this former leaguie wants to open up on entirely.<\/p>\n
Just like those bareknuckle bloodlines. <\/p>\n
Crocker sends ominous warning to Paro | 08:17<\/p>\n
But if you want to understand why a fella who is doing more than OK as an Australian actor, including being mentored by no less than Hollywood megastar Crowe, suddenly wants to go throw down with a bloke dubbed \u2018Big Nasty\u2019, this story goes some way to explaining that.<\/p>\n
Which again, has only ever really been told in whispers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the stories I\u2019ve heard have been since dad passed,\u201d Burgess says, referencing the death of his father in 2019, and at only 45.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust different stories that I\u2019m told whenever I go home now to visit family and friends. All the people around that way, they\u2019re old school. Don\u2019t say too much. So I guess that\u2019s all I should really say about it for now, too \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet while his explanations may be brief, know that come Wednesday night, Burgess won\u2019t only carry the name of his late grandfather on his trunks, but also the desire to make his fighting family history proud.<\/p>\n
Same as later this year, Burgess is also signed up for the movie Hop Harry – reviving the life of 1900s boxer Harry Stone, who is said to have famously employed a hopping motion, which resembled a kangaroo, in his fights.<\/p>\n
Originally hailing from New York, \u2018Hop\u2019 first travelled to Australia aged 20 and would eventually complete much of a career here that is thought to have boasted more than 200 fights.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo really cool story,\u201d Burgess says. \u201cHarry was a fighter who changed the whole boxing landscape in terms of how fights are promoted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m attached to it all as Jimbo, one of the seconds. And among all of that, I also thought it would be cool to step into this world for real and get a good taste of what it really feels like to be a boxer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m loving it. The past four months I\u2019ve dived in headfirst and really have the bug now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paro doubts Crocker can win abroad | 01:36<\/p>\n
Which again, proves there are many things that have Burgess here. <\/p>\n
Asked, for example, how much influence those family bloodlines have influenced his decision to fight Australia\u2019s new crossover king, and the retired Rabbitoh says that \u201cit really is a combination of things\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you feel something deep enough in your blood, in your lineage,\u201d he says, \u201cyou can either do something now or look back in 20 years wishing you had.\u201d<\/p>\n
And as for ever taking a bareknuckle fight himself?<\/p>\n
\u201cWho knows?\u201d Burgess grins. \u201cBut certainly don\u2019t rule anything out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ask George Burgess why he fights, and the hulking Englishman will recount an afternoon sat by the bedside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-756496","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\/756496","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=756496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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