Wayne Bennett and Andrew Johns are among those urging Tevita Pangai Junior not to walk away from the NRL, but the cross-code star says they are wasting their time.
Tevita Pangai Jnr is adamant he is about to play his last game of rugby league and that there will be no return to the NRL after his shock switch to boxing.
“It’s going to be my last game,” Pangai told this masthead. “In boxing you’ve got to be single-minded and you’ve got to be all in. At the top level in any sport, it’s too hard to be 50-50. “It was a pretty brave decision from him. It’s a tough one for me. I’m not walking away from 750k thinking, ’I’m going to go in 50-50 for this.”The former Broncos and Panthers enforcer promised Canterbury coach Cameron Ciraldo he would walk away if he wasn’t playing up to his pay cheque and has been good to his word.
Mundine and Paul Gallen have enjoyed huge paydays in boxing, partly because they were prepared to play the villain to drive pay-per-view sales. Asked if he was comfortable in that space, Pangai said: “In the rugby league world, you’ve got to please your teammates, you’ve to please your coach, you’ve got to keep that team culture.
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