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**Tigers show support for Geale**
By Scott Dougherty
HE'S ABOUT to fight the most successful rugby league player turned boxer in Australia — Anthony Mundine — but Harrington Park's Daniel Geale has the support of the people in rugby league he admires most — the Wests Tigers.
Last Wednesday, four Wests players visited Geale at his Smeaton Grange gym to watch him train for the fight being billed as "Australia's biggest".
Geale has trained with the Tigers for the past few seasons and is a proud member of the club.
"It's good to see footy players support me over him [Mundine]," Geale said.
"Mingling with high-calibre athletes is great for me to pick their brains.
"I only fight once every three to six months, they play every weekend and get their bodies bashed up.
"I've got a lot of respect for them."
Although Geale says he has "mixed feelings" about people swapping footballs for boxing gloves, he nominated front rower Keith Galloway as a player who could easily follow Mundine in crossing over to boxing.
"I was holding a shield for Keith and he was hitting hard, then I taught him some technique and he was so powerful, he was hitting me back metres," Geale said.
"I definitely have mixed feelings about footy players turning to boxing.
"If they are doing it for their own benefit — for money, and not boxing's, then I don't like it. If they take up the sport and do the right thing by the sport, it's good."
**Tigers show support for Geale**
By Scott Dougherty
HE'S ABOUT to fight the most successful rugby league player turned boxer in Australia — Anthony Mundine — but Harrington Park's Daniel Geale has the support of the people in rugby league he admires most — the Wests Tigers.
Last Wednesday, four Wests players visited Geale at his Smeaton Grange gym to watch him train for the fight being billed as "Australia's biggest".
Geale has trained with the Tigers for the past few seasons and is a proud member of the club.
"It's good to see footy players support me over him [Mundine]," Geale said.
"Mingling with high-calibre athletes is great for me to pick their brains.
"I only fight once every three to six months, they play every weekend and get their bodies bashed up.
"I've got a lot of respect for them."
Although Geale says he has "mixed feelings" about people swapping footballs for boxing gloves, he nominated front rower Keith Galloway as a player who could easily follow Mundine in crossing over to boxing.
"I was holding a shield for Keith and he was hitting hard, then I taught him some technique and he was so powerful, he was hitting me back metres," Geale said.
"I definitely have mixed feelings about footy players turning to boxing.
"If they are doing it for their own benefit — for money, and not boxing's, then I don't like it. If they take up the sport and do the right thing by the sport, it's good."
