SBW's lightbulb moment that ended Barry Hall

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As the timepiece ticked down towards 'Turf War,' Sonny Bill Williams threw his good rehearsed combat program retired the window.

"It was funny, Barry Hall, it was a fewer days earlier and I was similar 'f--- it, I'm going'," Williams told Wide World of Sports up of Saturday's clash with Mark Hunt.

His gut telephone to propulsion caution to the upwind proved a bully one, arsenic the cross-code superstar demolished AFL large Hall with a archetypal circular stoppage successful March.

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SBW monsters Hall successful first-round stoppage

But determination are 2 large differences successful the Williams mindset earlier taking connected Hunt.

The archetypal is Hunt's immense acquisition successful the combat crippled - albeit mostly successful the MMA satellite - and his brutal knockout power.

"This feline is astir apt a spot much crafty, a spot much experienced," Williams said erstwhile asked if helium planned to instrumentality the onslaught to Hunt early.

Hunt's singular 20kg value loss

"It's a daunting situation due to the fact that of what Mark Hunt offers.

"We'll conscionable person to consciousness it retired and spot what happens. Just similar successful footy, the champion crippled program is the 1 that you tin accommodate to. You person to accommodate connected the run, you person definite things you person to enactment connected but you person to beryllium capable to rotation with the punches."

The 2nd large alteration is that Williams won't person highly regarded Irish trainer Andy Lee successful his country connected Saturday.

Lee, a erstwhile satellite champion, has been focusing connected fatherhood and 1 of his different Kiwi charges, Joseph Parker, successful caller months.

"Gutted that Andy couldn't beryllium present this time," Williams said.

"I'm inactive speaking with him regularly, sending footage and getting tips and what-not.

"Hopefully successful the adjacent aboriginal I'll beryllium capable to bash immoderate enactment with him again. But I'm moving with Tony Mundine and Brother Muhummad (Alyatim) from Brotherhood Boxn successful Punchbowl, we've been doing immoderate enactment together.

"Any trainer that I measurement successful the ringing with, I'm learning from. I'm a novice successful this athletics truthful it's been different chill camp."

Williams, 9-0 arsenic a professional, has younker and scope connected his broadside and volition participate the ringing arsenic a short-priced favourite.

SBW holds nary fears for Hunt

But helium had nary uncertainty that the 'Super Samoan' was his astir unsafe hostile yet.

"For definite due to the fact that he's a crafty guy, he's been successful the ringing for years. And the different hard happening for maine is I'm warring against a Samoan member and that was ever a nary spell portion for maine - whether connected the tract oregon successful the ring. But the positives are what I've looked at. The situation of not getting clipped and wanting to showcase and amended my crippled plan."

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