A fun night out on the town ended with one young man being stabbed. However, it took Brok Tollen-Stevens, 20, more than half an hour to realise he had been wounded and needed to go to hospital.
Mr Tollen-Stevens was stabbed in a fight with two men just after 4am
on Sunday outside the Danny Doolans bar in the Viaduct Harbour.
It started after two men approached his girlfriend, Ashleigh Andrews, 19.
She said she was outside the bar with her friend Koedee Kitto, 19, waiting for Mr Tollen-Stevens and his friend Rob Pollard, 22, to come out, when "these two Italian guys came over and kept touching me and Koedee and telling us to go back to their hotel room".
"We told them to go away, but they kept hassling us."
Mr Tollen-Stevens said he swore at the men and told them to leave the girls alone.
"This guy in a pink shirt then just hit me and so we all started fighting and three other Italian guys jumped in too."
Mr Tollen-Stevens said he was stabbed during the fight.
More than 30 people stood around watching and egging the fighters on before a security guard broke it up and the other men ran away, he said.
Miss Andrews noticed that the neck of her boyfriend's shirt was covered in blood, but Mr Tollen-Stevens said he could not feel anything.
"I thought it was just a scratch so we went to another bar and my friend bought me a drink," he said.
The group then decided they had better go home because Mr Tollen-Stevens' injuries were "pretty bad". They took the taxi straight to North Shore Hospital. He was admitted immediately and underwent surgery.
The stab wound is three centimetres deep and is one centimetre away from a major artery near his throat.
"I was pretty lucky," Mr Tollen-Stevens said.
Detective Senior Sergeant Andrew King said police were investigating.
He appealed for witnesses to the fight.
