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Dapto Fight Night

The air is still as my friend and I drive across Mullet Creek, turn left at Bong Bong Road and enter the car park of the Dapto Leagues Club. Up the stairs, just past the bouncers, elegant carved wooden lions guard the entrance to the Chinese restaurant. Beyond them lies the realm of blokes and chicks. Stocky men in jeans and sports shirts. Stilettoed girls, young, all cleavage and lip gloss, hunting the stain-resistant carpeted savannah in packs.In here, it’s OK to walk around with your drink, which is served in a plastic cup. We line up and enter the venue, which has a sunken floor surrounding a raised stage edged with flags of all nations. Above hang chandeliers and a lone mirrorball. The ceiling is pressed with a pattern reminiscent of copper coloured mozzie coils.I sit at the back of three rows of kickboxing students on a platform raised level with…

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