Paul Gallen knocks out Lucas Browne: NRL star destroys former champion

Paul Gallen has ended Lucas Browne's career on the spot with a punishing first round knockout that no one saw coming. 

Paul Gallen ended Lucas Browne.

Paul Gallen has produced the biggest win of his career, destroying former world champion Lucas Browne in less than two minutes. 

 

Gallen sprung the massive boilover after being written off all week, extending his undefeated streak to an emphatic 11-0-1 in his professional career.

Gallen’s extraordinary late career move to boxing has the 39-year-old on track for a multimillion dollar payday this year with a proposal emerging for a Suncorp Stadium showdown with Aussie rising star heavyweight Justis Huni.

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Gallen risked it all in his blockbuster with Browne – and his legitimacy as a boxing talent, and more importantly his legitimacy as a boxing spectacle has been hammered home with each blow he rained down on Browne.

The former NRL star dropped Browne in less than 60 seconds when he landed a punishing left hand to the temple, it resulted in Browne tumbling forwards. 

When the fight commenced Gallen walked Browne down and had him pinned on the ropes when another flurry of shots dropped Browne. 

When it became clear Browne was outclassed and it was unsafe for him to continue, the referee officially stopped the fight at the 1.55mins mark of the first round.Main Event boxing commentator Ted Cofie described Gallen's performance as "unbelievable". It is the first time Browne has ever been finished in the first round.

“I kept saying to myself I can knock him out, and it happened,” Gallen said.

“I’ve been training to be a boxer for eight to 10 months.

“It’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind to something.

“The more I trained, the more I sparred, the better I became at boxing and it showed tonight.”

Gallen was earlier on Wednesday linked with a $2 million stadium fight against rising Aussie star  Justis Huni emerged this week, while the fight purses for each fighter were also revealed just hours out from the showdown.

The Daily Telegraph first revealed Gallen is set to receive more than three-times what Browne will earn for the six-round showdown.

The report outlines that Gallen is set for a $500,000 payday as the A-side of the purse, while Browne will earn $230,000 - but he had already agreed in February to forfeit $100,000 of that amount to his former promoter.

Gallen's payday, which dwarfs Browne's, is the final slap for Browne, after a month where Gallen has repeatedly torched the former WBA world heavyweight champion in their public war of words.

Meanwhile, The Courier-Mail reported Wednesday Gallen is in line for another monster payday of more than $1 million in a proposed fight against Huni at the end of 2021. 

The report reveals Gallen would fight Huni at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.

Huni was scheduled to fight Browne before he goes to the Olympics in June - but Browne's career is surely over, and needs to be saved from himself if he ever does try to step back into the ring.