Chaos at Influencer Boxing Event in Kilkenny

Chaos erupted at an influencer boxing event in Kilkenny on Saturday night as far-right activist Tommy Robinson became embroiled in a mass brawl that spilled from the ring into the crowd.

Irish police confirmed two arrests after violent disorder at the Unhinged Promotions show, branded Unhinged 003, on the Dublin Road in Kilkenny. The card, streamed online by creator Harrison Sullivan – better known as HSTikkyTokky – featured social media personalities “Mo Deen” and “MrTikTokUK” in the ring, but it was the scenes outside the ropes that turned the night into a flashpoint.

What began as a spectacle of internet bravado quickly disintegrated. Footage from the event appears to show Mo Deen suddenly leaping out of the ring towards Robinson, who was seated at ringside in a grey Stone Island jacket. Robinson, 43, seemed to be knocked backwards as tempers snapped and fists began to fly around him.

The atmosphere flipped in an instant. Punches were thrown in close quarters, bodies surged towards the commotion, and security struggled to keep order. In the chaos that followed, video clips show Robinson later inside the ring, apparently hurling a book in the direction of Mo Deen. That act lit the fuse again, triggering another outbreak of violence among sections of the crowd.

Robinson was grabbed amid the melee as others appeared to lash out at both men. Around the ring, the pictures turned uglier: chairs launched through the air, a metal barrier toppled, and shouting echoing above the din as stewards and onlookers scrambled for space.

Footage released by the organizers captured those flashpoints from multiple angles, underlining how quickly the event spiralled away from the boxing itself and into a running brawl.

In the early hours of Sunday, a post on Robinson’s X account showed him standing in the ring, holding a book aloft towards sections of the crowd – an image that contrasted sharply with the disorder that had marred the night.

Police later outlined the consequences. “Officers attended the scene of a number of incidents on the Dublin Road in Kilkenny,” a Garda spokesperson said. One man in his 30s was assaulted and taken from the venue to St Luke’s Hospital. A man in his 20s was arrested and is being detained under Section 4 at a Garda station in the South East. A second male, an adult in his teens, was arrested for violent disorder and has since been charged. Investigations are ongoing.

The flashpoint comes at a sensitive moment for Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Lennon. Last month he was convicted at Southwark Crown Court of harassing two journalists and causing them to fear violence. He was granted bail ahead of sentencing on December 16, when he faces a potential maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for harassment causing fear of violence, rising to 14 years if a court deems the offence racially or religiously aggravated.

Sullivan, the online creator behind the stream, was among those featured in Louis Theroux’s documentary “Inside The Manosphere,” a film that examined the rise of male-centric online communities and personalities. On Saturday night in Kilkenny, that digital world collided with real-world aggression – and it ended not with viral clips from the ring, but with police statements, hospital visits and criminal charges.