Australia (Commonwealth) _ Highly rated Titans youth Alex Leapai Jr., one of the sport’s greatest forward prospects and one of the brightest young talents, is reportedly thinking about leaving rugby league to concentrate on his boxing career.
The 18-year-old forward allegedly turned down a Sydney Roosters contract before joining the Gold Coast, but he will now postpone his NRL goal in order to follow in his father’s footsteps. In 2019, Alex Leapai Sr., his father, who was a formidable heavyweight boxer, announced his retirement after losing to Wladimir Klitschco in the undisputed title match.
A dominant prop for the Gold Coast Titans, he signed a three-year deal with the team last season following attention from seven other teams, including the Dolphins, Sydney Roosters, Manly Sea Eagles, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canberra Raiders, and Brisbane Broncos. Just nine months after accepting the contract, he is said to be reconsidering his decision to pursue a career in rugby league rather than boxing.
According to Australian media, Leapai Jr. is thinking of making an unexpected decision that would see him concentrate on boxing as his father did. He would leave rugby league and the Gold Coast Titans as a result of this.
Media sources have now indicated that Leapai has left the NRL in order to pursue his goal of winning the heavyweight boxing world championship. Noel Thornberry, his boxing coach, thinks he’s the most promising heavyweight boxer in Australia in fifty years.
Thornberry told the reporters, “Looking at this kid, I believe he can be heavyweight champion of the world.” Alex Jr. is a monster, and he said, “I think he will at least get the opportunity to fight for one like his dad did if he doesn’t win the world title.”
I believe Alex is more inclined to try boxing than rugby league. After we had a conversation, Alex and his father essentially agreed that the heavyweight world title should be awarded to at where they live.
In boxing, his father made significant progress, and Alex expresses his desire to continue his father’s legacy. You don’t frequently witness boxing like this in your lifetime, yet I’ve been teaching Alex since he was a little child. He declared that this is one of the most captivating tales in Australian boxing.
Lepai Jr., who recently turned eighteen, was granted eligibility to compete professionally on November 26 of last year. It is known that heavyweight legend Tyson Fury, who famously said his father was the hardest puncher he had ever seen, might serve as his coach if he chooses to pursue a career in boxing rather than rugby league. Thornberry said, “I honestly don’t think there are many fighters in the world as powerful as him.”
In the past, Tyson Fury claimed that Alex Leapai Senior was the strongest puncher in the heavyweight class. Alex already possesses that strength, and I predict that he will eventually surpass his father in power. I’ve handled the pads for both of them, and Alex Junior is really simply his father on steroids. At the age of eighteen, he stands six feet four and weighs 120 kilograms. He claimed there was still room for growth.
Elise Leapai, his further, is a Samoan Australian who was formerly a professional boxer and was born on October 16, 1979. The battle against Vladimir Klitschko in 2014 for the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring magazine, and lineal heavyweight crowns was the pinnacle of his career.
Denis Boytsov was beaten by Alex Leapai in Germany on November 23, 2013. Boytsov was Klitschko’s WBO mandatory challenger; nevertheless, even though Leapai’s victory over Boytsov was not a formal elimination match, Leapai was appointed the obligatory challenger.[3]
On February 3, 2014, Dan Rafael of ESPN.com stated that “K2 Promotions confirmed Monday that heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko will defend his championship for the sixteenth time when he fights mandatory opponent Alex Leapai on April 26 at the König-Pilsener-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany.
Though it was never written, the agreement between the Klitschko and Leapai camps was reached some weeks ago and spared them from having to make a purse offer. Leapai (30-4-3, 24 KOs), 34, an Australian-born Samoan, was unexpectedly named the WBO’s mandatory challenger following a significant shock victory.
