Tuesday 14 October 2014 13:42, UK
St Helens stand-off Lance Hohaia has accepted a one-match ban for his forearm strike which sparked the punches from Ben Flower in the opening stages of Saints' Super League Grand Final win over Wigan on Saturday.
The New Zealand stand-off, who caught Flower off the ball, was then knocked to the ground by the Wigan prop's first punch and lay motionless as Flower landed a second on his face.
Flower will face an RFL disciplinary tribunal tonight charged with a grade F offence, which could leave him with anything up to an eight-game suspension.
Hohaia, who was charged with a grade B offence of striking, was entitled to submit an early-guilty plea to receive the smallest sanction and avoid a hearing because of his previous good record.
"Lance Hohaia has accepted the EGP and will miss the first warm-up game of next season," a St Helens spokesman said.
