Gallen had quipped before the fight that he intended to ruin Huni's Olympic dreams when they clashed for the heavyweight title.<\/p>\n
"They're overlooking me, without a doubt. Their No.1 concern is the Olympics … well, I'm here to tell all of you, Justis, you included and your team: I'm here to do everything I can to make sure you don't go to the Olympics," Gallen said.<\/p>\n
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"That dream, since you've been seven years old, is gonna be f–ked. You're lucky there's a referee in there, I'm gonna do everything I can to break something in there. I'm gonna break something in there."<\/p>\n
While Gallen's comments were nothing more than innocuous pre-fight bravado, it still begs the question why Huni's camp would have accepted any risk so close to the upcoming games.<\/p>\n
But as the dust settles on Huni's shock omission, Gallen has served the young Australian Heavyweight a reality check over his cavalier approach to his now-thwarted Olympics campaign, which included two fights within six weeks of the Games.<\/p>\n
"I respect and like Justis, but what he did was disrespectful to the sport and extremely arrogant," Gallen told WWOS Radio on 2GB.<\/p>\n
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"To have those two fights leading into an Olympic Games, it's not my fault, it's his fault. And I refuse to take blame for it.<\/p>\n
"I do feel sorry for him but I'm not going to feel bad about it because he shouldn't have been having those types of fights a month before the Olympic games, he shouldn't have done it.<\/p>\n
"It was his dream to go to the Olympics from when he was seven years of age, he had that opportunity, and now he's only got himself to blame."<\/p>\n
Huni suffered the initial hand ligament injury in the weeks leading up to his fight with Christian Tsoye, a whole three weeks before his fight with Gallen.<\/p>\n
He aggravated the same injury in the opening rounds of his fight against Gallen and will be forced to undergo surgery.<\/p>\n
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