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On Friday night, the city of Brisbane will be hosting the biggest licensed boxing match on Australian soil in 2018, with Jeff Horn and Anthony Mundine set to step into the ring at Suncorp Stadium.
After months of build-up and contract negotiations and relentless publicity stunts, Horn and Mundine will go toe-to-toe over 12 rounds on November 30, with the majestic Brown Snake slithering in the background.
At 43, Mundine says the fight will be his last as a professional, and who knows how many more fights Horn will have because it seems the only people that are willing to fight him are in their 40s.
Horn is however looking to bounce back from a TKO defeat to Terence Crawford in June, in what local Brisbane punters believe will be the biggest fight in the River City since two wharf workers punched the fuck out of each other at the iconic Pinkenba Hotel last Friday.
The iconic wharfie drinking hole, also known as The Pink, or sometimes even The Stink, has played host to some of the best blues going around inner-city Brisbane in recent years.
The fighters, Glen and Corey (39, 28) are believed to have had gone to blows after a staunch disagreement over who was the first rugby league player to play for all three Queensland NRL clubs.
Glen says he staunchly insisted it was Scotty Prince, while Corey says there was this Islander bloke a few years before who’s name he can’t remember.
Witnesses say the scrap was good shit for a Friday arvo, with many questioning if Horn and Mundine will be able to live up to some of the combos that were being thrown around The Pink last weekend.
