NSW: Pub noise complaint leads to assault

Daily Telegraph, May 2007

BOXER Solomon Haumono's father has been charged over a fight outside a Sydney pub which left one man fighting for his life and another seriously hurt.

Maile Haumono, 56, a former heavyweight champion who once sparred with legend Joe Frazier, was arrested near General Gordon Hotel in Sydenham at the weekend.

A 52-year-old western Sydney man suffered severe head injuries and was yesterday fighting for his life in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Doctors operated to remove swelling on his brain and he was yesterday in an induced coma. A 45-year-old Lakemba man will need plastic surgery to a cut lip and other facial injuries.

The fight is understood to have started about 9pm on Friday over a noise complaint about the two men, who were sitting outside the hotel.

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