The action at a charity boxing event spilled out into the crowd when members of a gang spotted out-of-town rivals from across the ring.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the “Punch with Purpose” event held in the Dunedin Town Hall on Saturday after reports of fighting between Mongrel Mob and out-of-town Tribesman associates attending the event, Acting Senior Sergeant Iain Notman said.<\/p>\n
All warring factions were kicked out of the event by security, however, the disagreement quickly spread to the street.<\/p>\n
Outside in the Octagon, the two groups then started to argue about who had gotten kicked out, and who had not.<\/p>\n
The disagreement again ended in a fight.<\/p>\n
The two groups were then dispersed by police and there were no further issues, Snr Sgt Notman said.<\/p>\n
Later at 3.30am on Sunday, two men were arrested after a sparring match turned serious.<\/p>\n
The pair were outside the Night ‘n Day in the Octagon when they agreed to a “gentleman\u2019s rules” sparring match \u2014 they agreed on no head shots.<\/p>\n
It quickly turned into a “full-blown fight”, Snr Sgt Notman said.<\/p>\n
Police came and split up the fight and both men were arrested.<\/p>\n
However, as this was happening, one of the men\u2019s girlfriends then tried to intervene and stop the arrest by pushing through police to her boyfriend.<\/p>\n
She was subsequently pepper sprayed.<\/p>\n
The girlfriend was arrested as well and charged with assaulting police.<\/p>\n
She would appear in Dunedin District Court at a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The action at a charity boxing event spilled out into the crowd when members of a gang spotted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-648089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}