{"id":951777,"date":"2026-11-04T02:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951777\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:30:13","slug":"boxing-news-2026-paul-gallen-vs-nelson-asofa-solomona-press-conference-wife-family-comments-fire-up-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951777\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing News 2026: Paul Gallen vs Nelson Asofa-Solomona press conference, wife family comments, fire up video"},"content":{"rendered":"

A No Limit press conference has escalated rapidly after main-card fighters Paul Gallen<\/a> and Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a> clashed on Wednesday, with Gallen threatening the ex-Storm<\/a> enforcer for referencing his wife.<\/p>\n

Outside, on the steps of the TikTok Entertainment Centre ahead of Friday\u2019s bout, the two heavyweights headlined a fiery press conference, trading vicious barbs before the broadcast had even begun.<\/p>\n

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Gallen and NAS trade barbs.\u00a0Fox Sports<\/p>\n

The war of words reached fever pitch when NRL<\/a> legend Gallen addressed Asofa-Solomona\u2019s previous comments regarding his wife, declaring that athletes should never cross the line by dragging families into pre-fight trash talk. <\/p>\n

\u201cI only talk fact, I never make anything up,\u201d said Gallen. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn boxing, it\u2019s part of the game mate. Get used to it. You think you\u2019ll be around, you\u2019re f—ing shit anyway, you\u2019re going nowhere. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what else he\u2019s done, the rat, the dog – he brought up my wife. One thing people don\u2019t do, one thing blokes don\u2019t do in professional sports is bring up families. You brought up my wife. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if I see you Friday night, I\u2019m gonna kick your head off your f—ing shoulders.\u201d <\/p>\n

Asofa-Solomona however, remained his usual unflappable self and laughed off Gallen\u2019s tirade. In response, he invited Gallen to settle the score right then and there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m right here. Let\u2019s go,\u201d said Asofa-Solomona.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said your wife is a smart lady because she said you should have stopped fighting. Can I talk?\u201d <\/p>\n

Gallen quickly shut down the impromptu fight, firing back, \u201cI said Friday night. I\u2019m not doing it here, I\u2019m not being paid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asofa-Solomona refused to back down, explaining his comments while revealing that he believed Gallen was only fighting for the money. <\/p>\n

Gallen has been clear for months that he would only come out of retirement to fight Asofa-Solomona if a massive pay cheque was on the table<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Paul Gallen speaking to the broadcast after the war of words. \u00a0Sophie Wisely<\/p>\n

\u201cI said your wife is a smart lady because she said you shouldn\u2019t have come out of retirement. I\u2019m Polish, she\u2019s Polish,\u201d NAS continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou should have listened to her and not let the money get to you – you should have listened to your wife, that\u2019s all I said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it seems it got under his skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t bring up bloke\u2019s families…you\u2019re a mutt,\u201d responded Gallen. <\/p>\n

The two NRL players previously had run-ons during their playing careers, but Asofa-Solomona and Gallen will finally settle their differences in the ring on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A No Limit press conference has escalated rapidly after main-card fighters Paul Gallen and Nelson Asofa-Solomona clashed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-951777","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\/951777","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=951777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}