Murray Wenzel

3 days ago | perthnow.com.au | Murray Wenzel

Good luck going toe-to-toe with a "monster". Jai Opetaia's most recent victim has offered a chilling warning to the Australian's Italian title challenger as he prepares for his own ring return. David Nyika, New Zealand's former Olympic silver medallist and flag bearer, was humbled in a furious Gold Coast slugfest that left him bloodied and sprawled on the canvas in January.

3 days ago | au.news.yahoo.com | Murray Wenzel

Harry Wilson has been named to start for the Queensland Reds against a Crusaders team stacked with All Blacks for their Super Rugby Pacific qualifying final. The incumbent Wallabies captain looked at long odds to play when he ran off in obvious pain late in Saturday's defeat of the Fijian Drua, just two games into his return from a fractured arm. But precautionary scans cleared Wilson to return to training this week.

4 days ago | au.news.yahoo.com | Murray Wenzel

Jai Opetaia is prepared to make a seven-figure sacrifice in his drawn-out quest for world boxing title unification. The Australian cruiserweight sensation (27-0) will defend his IBF and The Ring belts on the Gold Coast this Sunday against unbeaten Italian Claudio Squeo (17-0). They'll come face-to-face for the first time on Wednesday before headlining a stacked card that includes Conor Wallace, Ben Mahoney, Max McIntyre and Teremoana Teremoana.

4 days ago | au.news.yahoo.com | Murray Wenzel

Harry Wilson has completed training with a heavily-strapped arm as the incumbent Wallabies captain's tilt to face the Crusaders in the Queensland Reds' sudden-death quarter-final strengthened. In just his second game back from injury, the flanker left the field late in the Reds' big defeat of the Fijian Drua on Saturday holding the same arm he had fractured earlier this season.

1 week ago | 7news.com.au | Murray Wenzel

Payne Haas remains no certainty to feature in the State of Origin opener after testing his injured leg to the side of the team’s first Brisbane session. The Blues, after a rain-hit week of preparation in NSW, descended on a sun-drenched Ballymore on Monday ahead of Wednesday’s clash at Suncorp Stadium. Broncos prop Haas, carrying a quadriceps injury suffered against St George Illawarra earlier this month, began the warm-up with his team.