Sonny Bill Williams: record, next fight and profile →
Australian rugby league player Paul Gallen has called for Sonny Bill Williams to meet him in a super bout of football stars after the Cronulla hardman took his boxing record to 7 and 0.
Rugby league star Paul Gallen doubts his much mooted boxing bout against Sonny Bill Williams will ever take place. Gallen said there had been talk of a fight against dual league and union international Williams since the Cronulla skipper had his first professional fight almost three years ago.
Dual rugby international, heavyweight boxing champion and rugby sevens Olympian - Sonny Bill Williams (7-0, 3KOs) has always forged his own particular path through the sporting landscape and it has nearly always ended up in success.
Paul Gallen preserved his perfect boxing record a fourth-round TKO win over Herman Ene-Purcell in front of a full house at Rumours International in Toowoomba on Friday. Gallen controlled the bout from the opening bell and scored a controversial knockdown in the second round, and completed the win two minutes in to the penultimate round after unleashing a number of big shots on Ene-Purcell that led to his corner throwing in the towel.
Paul Gallen's boxing trainer says his charge must win his rematch with Herman Ene-Purcell in Toowoomba on Friday to keep alive the prospect of a much talked about fight with Sonny Bill Williams.
Australian heavyweight boxer Solomon Haumono has labelled Sonny Bill Williams "a soft target" and challenged former world champion Danny Green to fight him instead. Green, a four-time world champion in the super-middleweight, light-heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions, has bizarrely sought to fight Williams next year despite the rugby and league superstar not having been in a boxing ring since January when he won his seventh fight.
Negotiations are underway for Danny Green to take on Sonny Bill Williams in a boxing super fight in 2016. Recently the talk has centred around Green fighting Anthony Mundine, but the All Blacks midfielder has emerged as an athlete that the Aussie would love to have a crack at. "That, to me, is really exciting," Green told the Daily Telegraph. Australian boxer Danny Green is keen to step into the ring with Sonny Bill Williams.
Cronulla Sharks skipper Paul Gallen said despite the demand for him and All Blacks forward Sonny Bill Williams to lock horns in the boxing ring, he's all but ruled out any chance of it happening this summer. Gallen, who'll fight New Zealand Warriors forward Bodene Thompson in Auckland next Tuesday, repeated his desire to take on Williams, who has excelled in the NRL, rugby union and, in 2013, he won the WBA international heavyweight title by defeating former South African world champion Frans Botha.
Paul Gallen has called out Sonny Bill Williams to get into the boxing ring with him next year. The Cronulla Sharks captain will fight Warriors back-rower Bodene Thompson in Auckland in November but, on Australian TV on Thursday, Gallen said he wanted to take on Williams in 2016. "Probably not the next six months," Gallen told Fox Sports.
Controversial New South Wales and Cronulla rugby league captain Paul Gallen is returning to New Zealand for his fourth professional boxing bout. The 33-year-old will feature on the Super 8 card in Auckland on November 3. Gallen's opponent is yet to be announced though he will be a sportsman, most likely with league connections. Gallen will be looking to make it 3-0 on Kiwi shores, having TKO'd All Black Hika Elliot and squeaked past Liam Messam in 2013.