{"id":325629,"date":"2023-08-24T02:16:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325629"},"modified":"2023-08-24T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:58:17","slug":"pangai-announces-first-fight-after-nrl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325629","title":{"rendered":"Pangai announces first fight after NRL retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tevita Pangai Jr<\/a> and his brother Jermaine Pangai have confirmed they'll join the Battle on the Reef fight card in Townsville later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pangai Jr sensationally dumped a $750,000 contract with the Canterbury Bulldogs to pursue his dream of becoming a professional boxer.<\/p>\n

The fight will be streamed live and exclusive on Stan Pay-Per-View<\/a> at the Townsville Entertainment & Convention Centre on October 7.<\/p>\n

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"No, there's no regrets," said Pangai Jr when asked of his bold decision to ditch the NRL at a press conference announcing his first fight on Thursday.<\/p>\n

"You've got to think pretty hard to walk away from $750,000.<\/p>\n

"Nah, there's no regrets and I'm going to take my boxing seriously.\u00a0"<\/p>\n

\"Tevita<\/p>\n

Pangai Jr's opponent is set to be announced closer to the bout.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old admits he's got a tough assignment ahead.<\/p>\n

Asked what excited Pangai Jr about the future fights, he replied: "Just that nothing is promised.<\/p>\n

"You know, I come from a sport where talent has got this far. This sport, if you don't work hard, you're going to sleep on the canvas. So you've got to work hard. I ain't going to sleep.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Watch all the action from 'Battle on the Reef' on October 7. <\/strong><\/em>Available to watch via pay-per-view live and exclusively on Stan<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

"I've learned that I love boxing. Especially my last one. I take it seriously," he added.<\/p>\n

"When I started it, everyone that knows me and my family, they know I love my footy and I watch it\u00a0a lot of footy.<\/p>\n

"But when I started to lean over and was watching old-school fights and watch Tyson Fury and all the greats and all my time was going into boxing, that's when I knew that I had to make this decision."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tevita Pangai Jr and his brother Jermaine Pangai have confirmed they'll join the Battle on the Reef fight card in Townsville later this year.\u00a0 Pangai […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325632,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325629\/revisions\/325632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}