{"id":757504,"date":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757504\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","slug":"george-burgess-vs-nelson-asofa-solomona-boxing-got-undies-on-ex-nrl-stars-classy-act-after-bloody-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757504\/","title":{"rendered":"George Burgess vs Nelson Asofa-Solomona boxing: \u2018Got undies on?\u2019: Ex-NRL star\u2019s classy act after bloody fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Asofa-Solomona has claimed another scalp, defeating George Burgess in a heavyweight boxing battle between two NRL premiership winning props. <\/p>\n<p>Burgess wasn\u2019t given much of a hope in his first ever boxing bout, but the former Rabbitohs hardman landed some punches and proved difficult to knock out, lasting until the third round until his corner threw in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>Paro vs. Crocker | Wednesday June 24 from 7pm AEST | Liam Paro gets his long awaited title shot against IBF welterweight champion, Lewis Crocker. | <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?extcamp=ncaeditoriallink-ptr-nca-lnk-awr-acq-var-kyo&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two towering ex-footballers both weighed in at 130kg and it wasn\u2019t the most aesthetic display of traditional boxing as they swung wildly at each other around the ring. <\/p>\n<p>Asofa-Solomona, who left the Melbourne Storm last year, now has a 3-0 boxing record and called out several current and former footballers including Matt Lodge, Paul Gallen and Manu Vatuvei. <\/p>\n<p>In the main event, Liam Paro went the distance against Lewis Crocker to win the IBF welterweight belt to become a two-division world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up on all the action below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson Asofa-Solomona has claimed another scalp, defeating George Burgess in a heavyweight boxing battle between two NRL premiership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,277557,158,85],"class_list":["post-757504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-ncaeditorialkayoprogram","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757504","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=757504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}