{"id":757273,"date":"2026-06-24T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757273\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:41:12","slug":"boxing-news-2026-nelson-asofa-solomona-defeats-george-burgess-in-third-round-tko-jai-arrow-mnd-tribute-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757273\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing news 2026: Nelson Asofa-Solomona defeats George Burgess in third-round TKO, Jai Arrow MND tribute, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undefeated crossover boxing star Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a> proved too strong for George Burgess<\/a> in the latter\u2019s pro boxing debut, with the retired Melbourne Storm<\/a> enforcer putting a brutal end to the bout in the third round. <\/p>\n

But it was both fighter\u2019s touching tribute after the wildly entertaining fight towards fellow NRL player Jai Arrow<\/a> – who last month revealed a diagnosis with motor neurone disease – that had the crowd on their feet. <\/p>\n

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Both fighters touched on fellow NRL player Jai Arrow’s fight with MND after the fight. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to use this time to acknowledge Jai Arrow,\u201d NAS after the fight. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going through a real tough time, I\u2019m pretty sure he was in both of our hearts during our camp.\u201d <\/p>\n

Asofa-Solomona then gathered his bloodied opponent into the centre of the ring to announce that both of their boxing shorts would be auctioned, with all proceeds going directly to Arrow and FightMND<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Burgess was also spotted donning a FightMND patch on his walk-out outfit. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re out here fighting, but he\u2019s fighting a bigger fight than us,\u201d Burgess said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all behind him. We\u2019ve got to stop this disease … it\u2019s terrible.\u201d <\/p>\n

Burgess\u2019 father suffered from MND<\/a> when he and his brothers were growing up, before passing away when George was a teenager.<\/p>\n

The former Rabbitohs star had some nice moments early in the fight, but looked to be in real trouble at the end of the first round.<\/p>\n

Mid-way through the third round, after Burgess started to pour blood from his cheek, his corner decided to throw in the towel. <\/p>\n

NAS actually managed to catch the towel and helped wipe blood from Burgess\u2019 face in a classy show of respect after plenty of trash talk leading in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nelson Asofa-Solomona stops George Burgess in the third round.\u00a0Kayo Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undefeated crossover boxing star Nelson Asofa-Solomona proved too strong for George Burgess in the latter\u2019s pro boxing debut,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-757273","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\/757273","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=757273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}