{"id":69814,"date":"2021-05-11T20:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=69814"},"modified":"2021-05-11T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:04:20","slug":"huni-to-receive-fraction-of-revenue-in-gallen-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=69814","title":{"rendered":"Huni to receive fraction of revenue in Gallen bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic medal hopeful Justis Huni will take home a fraction of the pay packet his opponent, former NRL star Paul Gallen, will receive when the pair go head-to-head next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/boxing-news-paul-gallen-vs-justis-huni\/028cee54-4097-4e1a-bc59-daf18a46df67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Huni (3-0, 3 KOs) will touch gloves with Gallen (11-0-1, 6 KOs), on June 16 at Sydney&#x27;s International Convention Centre\">Huni (3-0, 3 KOs) will touch gloves with Gallen (11-0-1, 6 KOs) on June 16 at Sydney&#x27;s International Convention Centre<\/a>, which will be the second of two fights in just three weeks as he gets ready for the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old will meet Christian Tsoye on May 26 before facing Gallen, where he&#x27;s set to take to home just 15 per cent of the revenue according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/boxing\/olympic-heavyweight-huni-to-get-just-15-per-cent-of-cut-in-gallen-fight-20210511-p57qy1.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald.\">Sydney Morning Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huni&#x27;s fight with Gallen will be the young boxer&#x27;s most highly publicised bout to date, while at the same time hoping to become Australia&#x27;s first boxing medallist since Grahame Cheney in 1988 when the Olympics take place later this year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"79d251fa-189b-4fc5-951d-00d22a2582bd\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/79d251fa-189b-4fc5-951d-00d22a2582bd\" alt=\"Paul Gallen, Justis Huni\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;For us, it was never about the money,&quot; Huni&#x27;s father and trainer Rockie said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are getting Justis&#x27; name out there and what better platform than being involved in a Main Event with probably the most hated person in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have been to a few football functions this week and I can&#x27;t believe that one person generates that much hate. It&#x27;s crazy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Gallen has been touted to make more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the fight was officially locked in, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/paul-gallen-justis-huni-boxing-fight-promoter-dean-lonergan-blasted-over-shifting-plans\/ccff24a2-1040-4540-bbf7-f7430e67cc5b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\" Gallen on Monday blasted boxing promoter Dean Lonergan\">Gallen on Monday blasted boxing promoter Dean Lonergan<\/a> for the lengthy process in getting the bout with Huni signed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s like I&#x27;m fighting Dean Lonergan, seriously. It&#x27;s ridiculous,&quot; Gallen told Wide World of Sports on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This bloke (Huni) is not a kid, he&#x27;s 22. He&#x27;s not 18 or 19 years old. He&#x27;s 22 and the current Australian champion, he&#x27;s going to have to learn to do some talking himself one day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Olympic medal hopeful Justis Huni will take home a fraction of the pay packet his opponent, former NRL star Paul Gallen, will receive when the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=69814\" title=\"Huni to receive fraction of revenue in Gallen bout\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/69814"}],"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=69814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69816,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69814\/revisions\/69816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}