{"id":400639,"date":"2024-06-07T00:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T00:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=400639"},"modified":"2024-06-07T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T01:04:22","slug":"bennett-brings-star-back-after-nrl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=400639","title":{"rendered":"Bennett brings star back after NRL &#039;retirement&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tevita Pangai Jr will return to the NRL effective immediately after inking a deal with the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>The \ufeffformer NSW Origin star turned professional boxer was handed a lifeline by former Broncos coach Wayne Bennett, with the contract covering the rest of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old will make the transfer from Queensland Rugby League&#x27;s Souths Logan Magpies from Monday.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Bennett advised the playing group on Friday morning of Pangai Jr&#x27;s signing, with the star prop set to make his debut with the Dolphins next week against the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE TO COME&#8230;\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1905e696-9c3f-4713-ba10-552d5247405d\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1905e696-9c3f-4713-ba10-552d5247405d\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"2526\" data-height=\"1421\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tevita Pangai Jr will return to the NRL effective immediately after inking a deal with the Dolphins. The \ufeffformer NSW Origin star turned professional boxer <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=400639\" title=\"Bennett brings star back after NRL &#039;retirement&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376798,"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\/400639"}],"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=400639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400641,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400639\/revisions\/400641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}