Australian boxing's great grudge match is being likened to State of Origin in the ring and Ford versus Holden after Michael Zerafa and Nikita Tszyu finally agreed to square off in the the biggest domestic blockbuster in years.

Tensions between Team Tszyu and Zerafa have been simmering ever since Zerafa pulled out of a scheduled showdown with Nikita's world championship-winning brother Tim during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.

While fans have been craving a Tim Tszyu-Zerafa super-fight, they will get the next best thing on January 16 - most likely on Queensland's Gold Coast.

"It's more just closing that mouth of his because we've heard non-stop blabbering from him for the last five years," Tszyu said of his motivation to silence the motor-mouth Melburnian.

"I've heard from my manager, G

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