{"id":949637,"date":"2026-11-02T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949637\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:02:23","slug":"boxing-news-2026-nelson-asofa-solomona-reveals-contract-clause-that-could-destroy-career-if-he-loses-to-paul-gallen-fight-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949637\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing news 2026 | Nelson Asofa-Solomona reveals contract clause that could destroy career if he loses to Paul Gallen, fight preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a>\u2019s boxing<\/a> career could end in the ring against Paul Gallen<\/a> on Friday night, the ex-NRL giant revealed, due to a clause in his contract with his promotion, No Limit. <\/p>\n

The former Storm <\/a>enforcer has been throwing verbal barbs at Gallen in recent weeks, but that war of the words is partially being driven by Asofa-Solomona\u2019s hunger to keep his career alive. <\/p>\n

\"Nelson<\/p>\n

Nelson Asofa-Solomona is crowned the champion via TKO against George Burgess.\u00a0No Limit Boxing<\/p>\n

Sydney-based boxing organisation No Limit has a clause with Asofa-Solomona that could cut loose the 200cm giant if he loses to Gallen on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Even with his reputation and contract on the line, the 30-year-old claims he\u2019s not worried. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a contractual agreement that if I lose that\u2019s it,\u201d Asofa-Solomona revealed. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut look, there\u2019s no thought of losing in my head. Not in this world or any other. It\u2019s pressure, but pressure makes diamonds. More pressure, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asofa-Solomona has found comfort in his past success in the ring, having won all three of his professional bouts to date via knockout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve come through at the end … plenty of times, and I\u2019ll do it again,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Gallen will step into the ring with 16 wins \u2013 eight by knockout \u2013 two losses and one draw under his belt, with his last fight a controversial split-decision victory against Sonny Bill Williams last November. <\/p>\n

The 45-year-old is coming out of boxing retirement to silence Asofa-Solomona, who taunted Gallen with a bizarre line encouraging him to use performance-enhancing drugs, even though \u201cit\u2019s not going to help him\u201d have any chance of claiming victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any drug testing in the process of this fight,\u201d said Asofa-Solomona, setting up a cheeky jab at Gallen\u2019s history with the Sharks, who were caught in a supplements scandal in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not care if he is taking something or has taken something in the past. I actually recommend he jumps on something. It\u2019s not going to help him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asofa-Solomona added: \u201cHe\u2019s trying to throw a lot of stuff out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The two faced off last month.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done a Google search and there\u2019s nothing on me. My nose is pretty clean. If you search up his stuff, there\u2019s a lot there.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Asofa-Solomona comes out on top on Friday, he has already set his sights on lining up a bout for the Australian heavyweight title, currently held by Stevan Ivic.<\/p>\n

He has already spoken to his coach about his goal to win the Australian heavyweight title, but that dream is \u201ca long way away\u201d from becoming a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sight hasn\u2019t come off Paul Gallen,\u201d Asofa-Solomona reiterated.<\/p>\n

Gallen and Asofa-Solomona will fight at TikTok Entertainment Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson Asofa-Solomona\u2019s boxing career could end in the ring against Paul Gallen on Friday night, the ex-NRL giant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-949637","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\/949637","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=949637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}