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Chapter 1: Who is George Burgess and what are his achievements in sports and acting?
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You are listening to the Outlaw Sport Podcast. What's up, punters and dribblers? Welcome back to another episode of All Talk with your old mates, Tom and Eddie. Now, joining us today, former NRL big boy, Thicky. Big and thick. Premiership winner with Souths. Grand final try scorer. Actor. Yep. And soon to be professional boxer. Yep. And historically hasn't minded a mirror selfie, Tom.
Mirror selfie extraordinaire, Soft George. Oh. Heard of him. Leaving. George Burgess. Yeah. George Burgess. George Burgess. We've been trying to get this one going for a while, so it's good to have him in. Great to have him in. Really enjoy this one, Tom. I'm going to be honest with you. Yep. He's an interesting man, George Burgess. No, he is. Plenty going on. Plenty going on. Big, dude.
Fighting Nelson, which is just like insane to me. That's in Brisbane, Pat Rafter Arena, June 24th. Wednesday, book it in. Yeah. Okay. Make smart decisions. For the rugby league division, I will say this. We didn't talk about it. We sort of touched on it there, but I'd like no limit to introduce an NRL belt. Well, I said the leggy belt.
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Chapter 2: What led George Burgess to transition from NRL to professional boxing?
Like the UFC have the BMF. Yeah. No limit should have the leggy belt. Yeah. Yeah. But like at the top end, heavyweight league. It's only heavyweights. Well, listen, you compete for the belt. Yeah. So, you know, you might have like a league who can be heavyweight, can be middleweight, and then you could be, you know what I mean? Like you could have that, but it's basically for big thickies.
Oh, yeah. Bigger the better. Yeah. That's right. George Burgess. Mate, this is nice. This has been a long time coming. We've been back and forth.
We've finally got enough to talk about. Well, exactly. Before there was a bit to talk about with the selfie and whatnot. Well, what selfie? Now there's more to talk about.
Well, there's more than just the selfie. Listen, you had more than the selfie even when we were talking about the selfie. But there was a lot in that selfie. Well, there was a lot in the selfie, you know, and more information has come to light over the years, Tom. Obviously, blood leaving. Blood leaving.
We cleared that up. We cleared that up, yeah.
Okay, so blood leaving, not arriving.
Just on record, it was leaving. Okay. But June 24th, it will be arriving.
Yeah.
For many people as well, hopefully.
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Chapter 3: How did George Burgess prepare for his upcoming fight against Nelson Asofa-Solomona?
Yeah, I just got a little shot of blood. Yeah.
Yeah, definitely. So when you knock out Nelson, it'll be arriving?
Yeah, well, I think it may reach the climax at that point. Oh, okay.
That's fine. Full chubbed in the ring. How do you feel? Mate, you haven't likeā¦ I mean, this is like your pro boxing debut. Have you had a professional fight?
It's not bad for your first fight, co-main event. Seriously? For a title fight. It's not a bad way to start, is it?
No, I like how when Nelson... I think it was maybe when he beat Lattimore... He's like, I'm just coming for everyone in the NRL division. He just like made up a division where he's like, it's the NRL division.
You can't just start making divisions up, mate, unfortunately. I might just start making my division the acting division. I'm coming for all you actors. Thor, I'm coming for you.
I must say that as a fan, I don't mind the idea of just like big leggies fighting each other for the leggy belt. Yeah.
I said this this morning on radio, like, I like it. I turned down a fight in 2019 against Barry Hall. Not many people know, but they offered me big money to fight Barry Hall. Turned it down because they gave me four weeks notice and they just signed it Wigan. I don't want to disrespect the sport, jump in there like a,
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Chapter 4: What challenges did George face during his recovery from injury?
I grew my hair, grew my beard.
Bad weight? What does that mean? Isn't it fat, not muscly?
Complete fat.
Yeah, right.
Gut. So I've got a good point. Well, like Birmingham weight.
Yeah, Birmingham weight.
Tommy Badweight Birmingham. Like talking beers, pizza. That's your fight name, Badweight. Pies and pizza. Gallo's Pies. That's what I was eating. Gallo's Pies. How many pies a day were you eating? Gallo, Sean Garlic, Charles, they just used to send me pies. I was like, I need to put on weight. It was like.
What did that feel like going from being like, because there's photos online, not just that fucking, not the soft George selfie, but just generally like when you went from like just a ripped fit like animal and then you're going to like 155 kilos. What did that? Part of me absolutely loved it.
Just being a big, big bear. Big hairy bear. Just proper man, you know, like I was playing a character who works on a fishing trawler, commercial fishing boat, you know, he works 200 bucks a week.
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Chapter 5: How does George Burgess balance his acting career with sports?
Did you lean on Russell much for advice?
Yeah, I gave him a few tips. I gave him a few tips. Did you? Yeah. But he's been great. He's always been very close with me. My brother's pretty much signed us at the club. When I told him I was doing the movies and acting, he was fully supportive. We've done three movies. I've been on three movies with him. Every movie I've learned so much from him and it's a good opportunity.
But he doesn't just pull me on there as like a friend. If I'm coming on a movie with him, I'm representing him and I've got to be on my game as well. So he doesn't do it lightly. So, yeah, I'm pretty happy that he's backing me on a few things and he believes in me as well.
So you must feel like an obligation then to take it
there's actually more pressure sometimes because you come, coming onto a set with a recommendation from Russell Crowe, like, if you don't perform, it looks bad on him and, you know, makes him like shit, so.
Did he classes?
Yeah, I was actually studying when I was still playing at Buddy's
Where were?
Screenwise in Surreal. So I used to go there, do classes. It was like my little escape from footy. And then when I got banned for nine games in 2019 for the... Was that Robbie? Eye gouge. Yeah, that's right. The potential eye gouge. It wasn't an eye gouge, by the way.
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Chapter 6: What insights does George share about his relationship with Russell Crowe?
I was still NRL contracted. I was doing a theater show playing a Prince Edward in serials and Channel 9 cameras were there and like the footage is still there online somewhere. You have to pull it up.
Did that freak you out knowing people were like that when Channel 9 started to like pick up about you doing it, were you still a bit insecure about it?
Guess who found out about it? Danny Wilder. I was going to say Danny. He was there reporting live with his face on the camera. He would have been. So he loves it, yeah. But he enjoyed it. It was a good film.
But yeah, did that make you feel insecure? Like as in it was your little thing, like were you happy for people to know that you were interested in doing this thing?
I loved it because it was my way of letting people know this is something that I love to do as well. All the boys came and watched me on stage singing and performing like Prince. I was in a full Prince costume. Yeah.
and it was hilarious like yeah showing everyone i've got a different side you know yeah yeah yeah for sure um do you um do you get more nervous for that theater player than a game of footy I was saying this, it's like they're all similar feelings.
You all get that little shot of adrenaline, no matter whether it's jumping on a field, jumping in a ring, or jumping on stage, or someone's selling action on a set. It's the same kind of buzz that you get, and that's like the adrenaline rush that we're all chasing. You boys feel it when you're watching your beloved Seagulls. That's right. Mighty Manly Seagulls. Yeah.
And yeah, we're all chasing that rush and boxing's the same thing. I love it.
When you're...
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Chapter 7: How does George Burgess feel about the impact of MND in the rugby community?
Learned so much.
Do you ever have any run-ins with people with security? I saw him recently in Paris. Have you seen that?
Yeah, yeah. He doesn't need security. He's actually looking after me sometimes. He's like... But it was funny. He did this funny thing when I got to London. He's like, I've not seen him yet. And he was with his kids, Charlie and Tennyson. He's like, right, don't come and say hello to us. You have to follow us and not get, we can't see you. You have to follow us for like.
however far we're walking through London town. But we don't want to see you. But if we spot you, you lose. So it was like a fun game that we did. And so I was walking with a newspaper. trying to hide behind this thing. And then every time the temp, cause he cleared the boys up on it. Every time the boys would turn back to look for me, I'd like jump into a diary. It was like funny shit like that.
That's cool. It's so real.
What do you reckon it is? Cause obviously like he's, you know, like there's lots of players that have come and gone from South while he's been an owner. And what do you think it is about your family and him? That's,
struck up such a connection him and sammy hit it off from day one you know they're very similar similar dudes you know like to have a laugh and you know sammy met him on on set of robin hood and that's where with my mom actually that's where he offered him the contract and they ended up speaking in his trailer for three hours about his family south sydney the history of the club
So they got to know each other really well. And no one knows this, but before he landed in Australia on his 21st birthday, he'd spent three weeks in New York with Russell. And he was traveling around with him as well. So in that time, it just became very close, you know.
And when he found out he's got a couple of brothers, three brothers back in England who all play footy and all want to have a crack as well, then he had the same idea of putting brothers in a team. He's like, this is perfect. So at the same time we had the idea of all playing together, he had the idea of putting brothers in a team and it was this perfect storm of what happened in those few years.
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Chapter 8: What is George's prediction for his fight and the significance behind it?
Luke's five years. And me and Tom are the youngest.
So were you professional when Sam left?
I was playing in the juniors at Bradford Bulls. Never played first grade. I was playing under 20s, under 18s. And I came on a holiday to visit him. And then that's when Rusty offered me the contract. Never seen me play. We went for a walk from the King's Cross through the botanical gardens into the rocks. Stopped in a cafe. He gave us a full spiel on South Sydney.
and then he's like told us why he wants to put brothers in a team that i don't give a fuck if you can play a good i like you guys but i can coach we can coach you and uh i got he offered me the bottom contract that you can get offered and i said yes straight away i go back to tom said no did he oh really did he he chose to stay in england because he wanted to
The original contract was a part-time contract. We were full-time in Bradford. But I knew that I wanted to be around Sammy no matter what costs. I didn't care what I was getting paid. I knew I wanted to be around Sammy because he was a guy of the brothers. And he had all the knowledge that I wanted to learn.
So I knew if I could spend some quality time around Sammy, it was going to improve my game because he was a coach, you know, from a young age, coach and a leader. So I just took whatever contract. But then when I went back to England, I got picked in this England Academy Games against the schoolboys, Australian schoolboys. We beat them 2-0 and the word got back to Souths.
And when I got back on New Year's Eve 2010, they changed my contract to a full-time contract.
Oh, really?
So it was like a big thing for me going. I thought I was going to be part time, you know, working a job. And then all of a sudden I'm full time training with guys like Greg English, Roy Asatasi, Michael Crocker, Sam Burgess. Serious team. Serious team. Yeah. Dev Taylor, these guys. And then the next year Madge comes in. Coltrane. Goes up another level.
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