Melbourne Storm powerhouse Nelson Asofa-Solomona has rejected lucrative offers from Super League to instead take up a career in boxing \u2013 after admitting he has fallen out of love with rugby league.<\/p>\n
Asofa-Solomona has been a pivotal figure in the Storm\u2019s success in the last decade, though he was absent for their NRL Grand Final defeat to Brisbane Broncos due to suspension.<\/p>\n
Shortly after that, he announced his ten-year career with the Storm was coming to an abrupt end after he had secured a release, amidst speculation at that stage he was being courted for a move to rebel rugby union competition R360.<\/p>\n
However, Asofa-Solomona has now left rugby altogether. He has signed with Australian promotion company No Limit and will take to the boxing ring in a new direction for his career.<\/p>\n
And the New Zealand international, one of the biggest names in the world of rugby league, has admitted he couldn\u2019t turn down the opportunity to try his hand at something new.<\/p>\n
\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
\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
\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
\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
Who the Super League clubs linked with Asofa-Solomona were remains to be seen, but it was understood at one stage that Warrington Wolves had made a lucrative offer to sign the forward as part of their plans for 2026.<\/p>\n
However, we will not see the forward in Super League \u2013 instead, we will see him in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm powerhouse Nelson Asofa-Solomona has rejected lucrative offers from Super League to instead take up a career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-308470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308470","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=308470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}