A HUDDERSFIELD boxing club has been helping a Super League star train for a ‘Battle of the Brawn’.

Hard-hitting Leeds Rhinos player Weller Hauraki has been preparing for a charity boxing match.

And in a bid to get his jabs and uppercuts up to scratch he has been training at Rawthorpe Amateur Boxing Club.

Weller is one of a host of sports stars fighting at Rhinos player Rob Burrow’s testimonial event at the Centenary Pavillion at Elland Road tomorrow.

The night is the latest of several charity events the diminutive scrum half has hosted to celebrate 10 years at the Rhinos.

Weller was set to go toe to toe with Huddersfield Giants forward Keith Mason but the prop had to drop out to have surgery.

He is now due to face three one-minute rounds against retired footballer Dean Windass.

His preparations for his ring debut against the former Bradford, Hull and Middlesbrough striker have seen him visit the Gasworks Street club three times a week to learn the basics and spar with Rawthorpe chief Mark Reynolds.

The second row forward said he was training at the Gas Club because Burrow and his father have links with the amateur club.

He said: “Rob asked me to fight for him as no one else would do it.

“Not many of the boys are fighters – I don’t class myself as a fighter but I put my hand up for Rob – he’s a good bloke and I know he’d do the same for me.

“It’s a good charity thing for Rob and it’s a challenge for me too.”