All Blacks great Keven Mealamu set to embark on new sporting career
After 132 tests in a global vocation crossing 2002 to 2015, during which time he won two World Cups, Mealamu is looking at a move into proficient boxing.
Addressing the New Zealand Herald, Mealamu uncovered his aim to seek after a vocation in the ring, which will start when he takes on previous NRL star Wairangi Koopu in July's superstar Fight for Life occasion.
"I'd adore the chance to go further and do the game all around well - I'm willing to invest the effort and work to ensure I get familiar with my art," the 43-year-old, who is a Blues veteran of more than 160 matches, said.
"I would be extremely invigorated at that open door, yet coming from a donning foundation, I understand I must deal with what is before me first, which is Fight forever.
"I would rather not get out excessively far ahead and make forecasts before I've even bounced in the ring."
Since his retirement from rugby, Mealamu has set out on undertakings - he claims a rec center in South Auckland - and has moved into neighborhood body governmental issues, having been chosen onto the Papakura Local Board in 2019.
He likewise holds a job as an overseer of Auckland Rugby, yet let the Herald know that he is anxious to embrace the difficulties that accompany being an expert athlete, something he hasn't looked since his rugby retirement in 2015.
"What invigorates me about boxing is the test of preparing myself for the obscure," Mealamu said.
"As an expert rugby player, there is a test consistently and you get yourself up for that.
"It most likely looks a piece changed when you resign and I believe's that is the interesting piece of having this boxing challenge. The objective is truly clear, you can see what you are really going after, and assuming that you put the work in you will be prepared."
Upheld via coach and previous NRL star Monty Betham, as well as advertiser Dean Lonergan, Mealamu isn't the main previous All Black to move into the enclosing ring ongoing times.
Last month, it was affirmed that Sonny Bill Williams, Mealamu's previous All Blacks colleague, would get back to the ring to take on ex-AFL star Barry Hall in a battle planned to occur in Sydney one month from now.
Since that declaration, Williams has migrated to the United Kingdom to prepare close by world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and individual Kiwi contenders Jospeh Parker and David Nyika.
