Paul Gallen's next opponent has officially signed on the dotted line.
Lucas Browne, the veteran heavyweight who made short work of John Hopoate in his last professional fight, tweeted a photo of himself signing a contract on Friday.
"Signed and sealed," his manager Matt Clark replied shortly afterwards.
The 41-year-old has just two losses in his professional career, and represents an entirely new level of challenge for Gallen, who is undefeated since taking up boxing.
https://twitter.com/lucasBrowne/status/1363713103985213444As expected, fireworks have already begun with Browne calling out Gallen on social media a couple of days ago about changing the number of rounds in the bout, which is expected to take place in April.
"In typical Paul Gallen fashion, I've been informed by his team through my manager that he doesn't want a ten-round fight anymore, he wants a six-round fight.
"So going from wanting to prove himself against an actual boxer, back to a circus of six rounds."
But Browne added that he wouldn't even need six rounds to finish Gallen off.
"You were never going to last six rounds mate so it doesn't matter, it basically just means I'll do more sprints instead of stamina stuff.
"It's going to be an absolute barnburner, basically two fellas wanting to punch the shit out of each other, standing in the middle of the ring, having a go."
https://twitter.com/MattClarkBoxing/status/1365104893107703809"From my point of view, I do not mind at all, it's just shorter rounds to knock you out in."
The former Sharks skipper called Browne a "bum" in January.
"I thought I'd better reply to big b***h daddy Browne about me and other people he wants to fight in Australia," Gallen said.
"To let you know the whole truth, Matt Rose has been in negotiations with Lucas and his manager about fighting me on April 14 - a fight I've agreed to.
"The problem is Lucas has multiple contracts with multiple promoters, one of those promoters wants to be heavily compensated to release Lucas to fight me.
"That compensation number is extreme and this is on top of the six figures Lucas wants to fight me, he wants more than six figures after he said he'd bash me for nothing.
"So Lucas if you want the fight - I've got bigger fish to fry at the back end of the year, not bums like you - you need to sort yourself out and take a bit of a reduced fee. The fight is there for you. Stop carrying on like I'm the one dobbing it because it's not me."
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