Champion rower already feels a little unglued just thinking about facing league star.
Manu Vatuvei's head is about twice the size of Eric Murray's. That's the first thing you notice when the league player and the champion rower square off at a promotional appearance ahead of Saturday night's charity boxing match.
Scan down and it becomes apparent that a vastly more significant cranium isn't the league player's only physical advantage. Vatuvei is a ripped 106kg thanks to his brush with boxing, down from his playing weight of up to 118kg. Murray, by his own account, is "a bit pudgy" at 98kg.
Physically it's a mismatch of proportions not seen since radio host Mark Watson's ill-advised calling out of not-so-fat-anymore cricketer Jesse Ryder for Dean Lonergan's last celebrity biffo night, June's Godfather of All Fight Nights.
With a jab that is about as stiff as a sherry trifle, Murray's pad work doesn't inspire any confidence this "contest" will be any more competitive that Ryder's demolition of the hapless Watson. This could get ugly.