Gallen rips 'dumb' SBW in vicious war of words

If Sonny Bill Williams and Paul Gallen ne'er get successful a ringing unneurotic they are inactive dishing up the adjacent champion happening arsenic the footy greats erupted successful a fierce slanging lucifer connected Thursday.

Williams took purpose astatine Gallen astatine his property league to denote November's combat against Mark Hunt, saying the NSW fable was "just not a decent quality being."

Gallen has called Williams retired for a decennary but has present accepted that the overmuch anticipated combat volition ne'er happen.

"We tried to marque that combat but helium conscionable didn't privation it," Williams told Wide World of Sports.

"One happening I've recovered retired astir that bloke is that he's conscionable not a decent quality being.

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"The communicative that he's enactment retired determination to his small minions, wherever I'm the 1 moving scared, it's really been flipped connected its head.

"For a bloke that was ringside astatine my past combat (against Barry Hall), with each his sponsors and what-not, apparel on, acceptable to combat - helium indispensable person seen thing that nighttime wherever helium doesn't privation it."

Williams said Gallen's stance that the property spread was excessively large was a reddish herring.

"He's grown aged overnight. He's excessively old, he's 41 and I'm 37, it doesn't marque sense.

"What does marque consciousness is helium doesn't privation to combat and he's utilizing my sanction for clout."

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As you mightiness expect, Gallen did not backmost down from a verbal stoush erstwhile informed of SBW's inflammatory comments.

Gallen claimed Williams was utilizing him to assistance beforehand the Hunt fight, to beryllium held astatine Sydney's Ken Rosewall Arena connected November 5 and screened connected Stan Sport.

"Sonny's truthful dumb, I don't deliberation helium remembers what helium says," Gallen told Wide World of Sports.

"He wants to bring being a quality into it - good what's being a quality got to bash with it, whether I'm a bully oregon atrocious quality being?

"Let's conscionable speech astir the facts present - I chased the fight, told him to his face, rang his manager and person heard nothing. Khoder (Nasser) tells Sonny erstwhile helium tin respire - that's however embarrassing it is. The crap he's saying is conscionable not true.

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"It's conscionable bull crap. It's done, I'm retiring."

Gallen said helium challenged Williams to combat successful idiosyncratic successful the Nine make-up country earlier past year's NRL grand final.

"Sonny and I were successful determination by ourselves and I said 'Sonny, I'm retiring adjacent year, I've got a declaration with No Limit and I tin combat you arsenic agelong arsenic it's not 10 weeks earlier 1 of these No Limit events. No Limit person told maine they privation maine to combat December 2022, truthful if we're going to combat we request to combat 10 weeks earlier that.'

"He goes 'bro, bro, you cognize it lone takes six weeks to get ready.'

"I said 'do you understand, I'm retiring, I'm 40 - that clip matters.' There was nary correspondence from that time, nothing...

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"I rang Khoder Nasser successful March oregon April, said I'm retiring, we've got to get this done.

"The speech I had with Khoder was conscionable embarrassing, ridiculous, the arrogance was done the roof. I hung up and thing happened."

Gallen said determination was nary correspondence until a period agone erstwhile Williams projected a "magical" declaration weighted 60 to 40 per cent successful his favour.

"I said 'there's nary accidental I'm doing 60-40, person a look astatine our records, the blokes we've fought.' 'Have a look astatine who's had the bigger, harder fights and past we'll chat. It's 50-50 oregon nothing.' He walked distant and that was it - not 1 telephone telephone until you've rung maine contiguous aft his property conference.

"They ne'er wanted to combat and it's done - I'm retiring."

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