Barry Hall has always said that he would consider a boxing career after football. Now that he has retired from the AFL he may be getting in the ring sooner rather than later.
Big dollars have been waved into Barry’s face to don on the gloves in what would be a boxing promoters dream.
He has had talks with champion boxer and promoter Danny Green which could see him moving to Perth to join the Green team in a boxing career. Green has said that he wants to be Hall’s promoter and that Barry could earn $1 million just for signing with him as a professional boxer.
Green has had numerous sparing sessions with Hall in the past and said that he can take a punch and has great movement around the ring.
Australia’s leading boxing agent Angelo Hyder has been quoted saying that Hall has the potential to fight all over the world and could make up to $10 million per fight. A fair pay rise from the $600,000 per season he was getting at the Swans. Angelo believes that Hall would get a shot at a world title.
There is speculation that a ex NRL footballer now pro boxer John Hopoate could be Barry’s first fight in what would be a massive event for Australian boxing. The AFL v NRL rivalry would draw a massive crowd and millions of people to watch the fight on Pay Per View where the big money is. It would be one of the most anticipated fights in Australian boxing history. Hopoate has made the transition into boxing very well with 11 wins from just 14 fights.
Barry Hall was a amateur boxing state champion as a schoolboy and started boxing when he was 14 before quitting to pursue his AFL career.
IASbet is the place to go for boxing bets. They have markets on all the Australian and International fights including both Danny Green and John Hopoate upcoming fights.
Here’s your chance to be an online bookmaker! Australia’s IAS (International All Sports) is up for sale and the well know betting icon is yet to seal any hand over deals.
Mark Read’s IAS Board have looked at expressions of interest from rival companies including Sportsbet and Centrebet which has caused some big movements in the share price.
Early this year Centrebet made a hostile bid of near 22 Million dollars for a 90% part of IAS at 33 cents per share. At the time this seemed to me to be a generous offer considering that the shares were only worth 16 cents and increasing losses gave IAS a bleak outlook. The offer was officially rejected by IAS along with Centrebet’s other offer of 28 cents for a 50% slice of the company. The IAS directors stated that the offer significantly undervalues the shares of IAS but would continue to look at interests from other companies.
With this interest the Darwin based bookmaker saw the share price rise. Another rival company Sportsbet in late February and early March bought a little over 12.3% of IAS at this raised price of an average of 35 cents per share. This lead to Centrebet announcing that they are out of the hunt and wouldn’t make any counter offers. Matthew Tripp owner of Sportsbet commented about the acquisition “The company had bought the stake to have an influence on IAS’s future”.
That’s exactly what happened, around the same time IAS announced its half year results which gave a much brighter picture and the shares topped a high of 42 cents. Currently IAS shares stand at 35 cents and are showing to be much more stable. IAS now has around 40,000 customers on both it’s IASbet and Canbet sites and turned over $524 million last financial year. They continue to stay very competitive with other Australian bookmakers with aggressive incentives to new players. Currently IAS give new customers a $100 free bet just for making $50 worth of bets on their websites.
Barry Hall has always said that he would consider a boxing career after football. Now that he has retired from the AFL he may be getting in the ring sooner rather than later.
