Hunt went on to say that he would not fight Gallen if he was using steroids for rehab. Gallen responded with a vehement denial.<\/p>\n
"Mate I've never taken steroids," the text began.<\/p>\n
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As Cronulla Sharks captain and their highest-profile player, Gallen became the face of the club's 2011 peptides scandal.<\/p>\n
"I'm surprised and disappointed that Mark Hunt would reveal a personal conversation," Gallen told the Herald<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n "We've broken bread and sat down plenty of times and I don't think he should have gone there. Me and Mark have had some pretty in-depth conversations, he may have forgotten what some of those are about.<\/p>\n "It's frustrating that after 10 years I'm still the only one having to answer questions [regarding the peptides scandal] or be linked to this. No other player is and no other official even has a mark against their name."<\/p>\n Gallen and Hunt will fight at Bankwest Stadium on December 16.<\/a><\/p>\n Hunt has been an outspoken opponent of performance-enhancing drugs, having fought multiple doping cheats during his MMA career.<\/p>\n The 'Super Samoan' has an ongoing lawsuit against the UFC related to match-ups against fighters later found to have been doping.<\/p>\n Gallen has always maintained that he was an unwitting part <\/a>of Cronulla's peptides scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Gallen says he's disappointed that Mark Hunt queried whether he was taking steroids ahead of their fight, then leaked a private conversation. UFC legend […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/3501"}],"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=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}