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Immediately after the fight, both former NRL enforcers paid tribute to South Sydney\u2019s Jai Arrow, who has only recently revealed his battle with motor neurone disease.<\/p>\n
While being interviewed in the ring by Main Event\u2019s Ben Damon, NAS removed his fight trunks and said he would be auctioning them online with all proceeds going to Arrow, with Burgess then suggesting he would do the same. \u201cHe\u2019s fighting a bigger fight than us,\u201d Burgess said, having lost his father Mark to the same disease. \u201cAnd we\u2019re all behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n
After having already defeated fellow leaguies Jeremy Latimore and Jarrod Wallace, Asofa-Solomona is now angling for a showdown against NSW Origin great Gallen.<\/p>\n
Speaking with Fox Sports this week, No Limit boss George Rose confirmed discussions are already underway for the fight \u2013 with Gal requesting a $1 million purse for the showdown.<\/p>\n
Gallen, of course, boasts a strong boxing resume that includes wins against Lucas Browne, Mark Hunt and Sonny Bill Williams, while almost going the distance in an Australian heavyweight title fight against Justis Huni.<\/p>\n
Nelson Asofa-Solomona and George Burgess post-fight. Picture: No Limit BoxingSource: SuppliedNelson Asofa-Solomona and George Burgess exchange punches.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asofa-Solomona, meanwhile, has made short work of his rivals \u2013 with Burgess now the latest name to join his list of victims.<\/p>\n
But geez, the son of streetfighter, and grandson of a bare-knuckle streetfighter, and great grandson of a bare-knuckle streetfighter had a crack. <\/p>\n
Walking to the ring first, South Sydney\u2019s premiership hero was accompanied by popular Aussie singer Conrad Sewell, who belted out Firestone all the way into the squared circle at Pat Rafter Arena.<\/p>\n
Wearing a purple and gold sleeveless robe, with matching trunks, Burgess also carried the name \u2018Butch\u2019 on his gear in tribute to his streetfighting grandfather.<\/p>\n
Big Nasty, meanwhile, was accompanied in his walkout by a lone guitarist pumping out Jon Bon Jovi\u2019s Livin\u2019 On A Prayer.<\/p>\n
As usual he was decked out in black trunks and sleeveless robe.<\/p>\n
While Burgess came into this one with nobody knowing how well he could fight, it was his right hand that landed heavy early in a show of real promise.<\/p>\n
And from there? Well, things got a little, err, chaotic. And immediately, as both men swung wildly, missed, grinned, swung some more, before Big Nasty landed, and again, this time with a big right that wobbled Burgess, who \u2013 somehow \u2013 recovered and saw out the round.<\/p>\n
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ULTIMATE GUIDE: Everything you need to know <\/a><\/p>\n FIGHTING WORDS: Gal\u2019s $1m fight demand \u2014 and that\u2019s a \u2018discount\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: \u2018Righto boys, we\u2019re going to the pub\u2019: The bare-knuckle bloodlines behind Burgess fight<\/a><\/p>\n WEIGH-INS: Savage Crowe taunt as champ does runner; dual G-banger face-off stuns<\/a><\/p>\n Ivic PUMMELS Tialu to get TKO | 00:27<\/p>\n Wonderfully, Round 2 started where the first finished; with NAS this time landing better first, popping the jab, before Burgess returned fire, then appeared to trouble the betting favourite, before copping it again himself, then pushing NAS into the corner, while bleeding from over his left eye now, and then copping it again .. bang, bang \u2026 ding, ding.<\/p>\n While Nelson, undeniably through the opening six minutes, was getting the better of proceedings, Burgess was still enjoying moments \u2013 which every time drew cheers from the crowd. And at one point, a chant of \u201cGeorgie \u2026 Georgie \u2026 Georgie \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Round three though was all NAS, who was landing early, including with a huge right which, somehow, Burgess ate, before \u2018Big Nasty\u2019 poured it on, almost pushing his rival out of the ring, and then landing again \u2026 which is when the towel was thrown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson Asofa-Solomona has confirmed himself Australia\u2019s new crossover king \u2013 and potentially secured a $1 million showdown with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-758067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}