The Cairns Post

Gallen is no fan of his rival

- JAMIE PANDARAM

NO LIMIT boxing chief George Rose is incensed that Paul Gallen stormed out of a press conference promoting Wednesday’s fight against Kris Terzievski and has vowed to hire additional security at Tuesday’s weigh-in to ensure the former NRL star fulfils his media obligation­s.

Ironically, Gallen walked out of the presser at The Star because he feels Melbourne’s Terzievski hasn’t done enough to promote the 10-round Australian heavyweigh­t title fight in Newcastle.

In a surprise move, Gallen responded to his first question by presenter Ben Damon by taking aim at Terzievski’s failure to attend last Wednesday’s open media workout in Sydney and provide a platform to the many undercard fighters on the card including Nikita Tszyu, Harry Garside, Sam Goodman and Hassan Hamdan.

“Kris has done nothing to sell this fight, not one thing, didn’t turn up to media the other day – there was more media the other day than at the NRL grand final – it didn’t fit in his schedule,” Gallen said.

“I’m not going to sit here for one more minute and f--king promote him.”

Gallen then stood up and said: “Kris, you’re a pretty boxer, but Wednesday night isn’t going to be pretty, it’s going to be ugly … and I’m going to bash you.”

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