{"id":308310,"date":"2025-12-10T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308310\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:46:18","slug":"nelson-asofa-solomona-shuns-rich-super-league-deals-to-quit-rugby-league-for-new-sport-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308310\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Asofa-Solomona shuns \u2018rich Super League deals\u2019 to quit rugby league for new sport \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/nelson-asofa-solomona-shuns-rich-super-league-deals-to-quit-rugby-league-for-new-sport\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Nelson Asofa-Solomona shuns \u2018rich Super League deals\u2019 to quit rugby league for new sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MixCollage-06-Dec-2025-01-34-PM-8271-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE STORM forward Nelson Asofa-Solomona has shunned \u2018rich Super League deals\u2019 as well as lucrative R360 offers to head into the world of boxing.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has signed a full-time boxing deal and could earn up to $1m a year, leaving behind a strong legacy in the NRL.<\/p>\n<p>Asofa-Solomona played 215 NRL games for the Melbourne Storm during his career, winning the NRL premierships in 2017 and 2020, but missed the last two NRL grand finals through suspension.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0News.com.au, the giant enforcer rejected overseas offers from Super League to take up the new sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity. It\u2019s no secret I\u2019ve fallen out of love with the game of rugby league, for now, but I\u2019ve fallen in love with the boxing game,\u201d Asofa-Solomona said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to test myself. I\u2019m here to take a risk ultimately I would regret it if I didn\u2019t give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d wake up in the morning and it felt like a chore the last couple of years. For me, waking up as of recently and going to boxing training, it really got me out of bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something I am really passionate about right now. It\u2019s a bit nerve-wracking, but what\u2019s life without a bit of risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No Limit\u2019s George Rose said his company wants Asofa-Solomona, who already weighs a gargantuan 115kg, to bulk up even more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if people will be putting their hand up for this one,\u201d No Limit\u2019s George Rose said at Thursday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be people absolutely shit scared of going anywhere near him, because of the size and power of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, there will be people out there who want to make a name for themselves and somebody wants to be the first person to hit Nelson in the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got no doubt that we will find a great opponent for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want him to be big, we want him to be devastating. We want him to showcase that power he\u2019s got. And when you\u2019re big in the heavyweight division, size matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Kiwi forward added that suspensions did play a role in pushing him away from the NRL and is glad to have his future sorted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt played a bit of a role. You can\u2019t get sent off in boxing, which is good \u2013 that\u2019s a start. There\u2019s a lot of other contributing factors as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE STORM forward Nelson Asofa-Solomona has shunned \u2018rich Super League deals\u2019 as well as lucrative R360 offers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-308310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}