After exchanging some words, the 30-year-old former Melbourne Storm prop made a beeline for the audience and took a swing, though appeared to pull the punch \u2013 which the crowd member quickly backed out of range of. <\/p>\n
Fox Sports reported the boxer alleged that the crowd member made an ape gesture. <\/p>\n
Asofa-Solomona was quick to apologise for his actions, taking the opportunity to do so in his post-fight interview. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to apologise for what I did, I acted like a bloody idiot,\u201d Asofa-Solomona said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just got in a bit of the heat of the moment. I hope you guys can understand, it\u2019s been a big build-up and I should not behave like that, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d <\/p>\n
Asofa-Solomona added that it was an honour to step in the ring against Gallen \u2013 the \u201ccrossover heavyweight king\u201d – who had previously fended off every fellow code-hopper including wins over Sonny Bill Williams, Justin Hodges and Ben Hannant, and a draw with Barry Hall. <\/p>\n
The two-time NRL grand final winner then turned his attention to his next target \u2013 calling out former Love Island contestant and undefeated boxer Tommy Fury, who has spent his career down a weight class at cruiserweight. Fury, who holds an 11-0 record, had his most recent professional bout in May 2025, but fought an exhibition earlier this year. <\/p>\n
\u201cBig Nasty is here to stay. If we can make this next fight work I would love it \u2013 Tommy Fury over in the UK.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After exchanging some words, the 30-year-old former Melbourne Storm prop made a beeline for the audience and took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[157094,1929,64,35070,63,802,183336,28791,2990,8809,36440,96489,8844,47024,1927,8936,1911,522627,522626,85,25758,411698,670,3605],"class_list":["post-955268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-asofasolomona","tag-at","tag-au","tag-audience","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-fellow","tag-gallen","tag-knockout","tag-knocks","tag-made","tag-member","tag-move","tag-nelson","tag-out","tag-over","tag-paul","tag-pugilist","tag-sporthopping","tag-sports","tag-statement","tag-swings","tag-sydney","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955268","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=955268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}