A man in his 30s has been hospitalised and two other men arrested following a brawl at a controversial boxing event in Kilkenny attended by far-right thug Tommy Robinson and HSTikkyTokky, the social media influencer who featured in Louis Theroux’s Inside The Manosphere documentary.
The injured man was taken to St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny following the alleged assault, after gardaí arrived at the Hub in Cillín Hill at around 9pm on Saturday.
A man in his 20s and a male teenager were arrested and were last night being detained at a Garda station in the southeast.
Gardaí said the teenager has since been charged with violent assault and will appear in court shortly.
The boxing event was organised by Unhinged Promotions and hosted by 25-year-old social media personality HSTikkyTokky, also known as Harrison Sullivan, who recently featured in Theroux’s Netflix documentary about misogynistic influencers.
The event was to be headlined by a clash between rappers Russ Millions and Kirky. Videos posted online show chaotic scenes, including a fracas between influencer Mo Deen and anti-immigration activist Robinson, 43.
Robinson is on bail awaiting sentencing for two counts of harassment causing fear of violence.
Videos show security personnel trying to intervene in an altercation in the ring between the two men.
It is believed the violence escalated quickly with reports of chairs and glass being thrown across the room.
The event was abandoned and people were escorted outside the venue. But speaking on social media afterwards, Mo Deen claimed that an earlier altercation, where he left the ring and appeared to jump towards Robinson, had been scripted.
‘I’m not trying to cause problems. This is like WWE… I followed the scripts, I’m getting death threats, people trying to kill me – what the hell?’ he wrote on social media.
‘This is a message to all of Tommy’s supporters, I just followed the script that they told me they agreed with. So what’s everyone trying to attack me for?
‘This is what they told me. Tommy’s agreed with it, they’ve agreed with it. I followed it.
‘I don’t know what’s going on, this whole thing is crazy.’
Local Independent councillor Eugene McGuinness said he had received calls about the chaos and was sent videos which, at first, he did not believe were real.
Before the event at the weekend, HSTikkyTokky told his Instagram followers the fight scheduled between influencers Mo Deen and Mr UK Kick Official was about ‘bringing two of the most chaotic names in the UK internet scene’ to step into the ring for a ‘proper scrap’.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is facing up to ten years in prison after he ‘weaponised social media’ to harass two Daily Mail journalists.
Last month, the former English Defence League leader was found guilty by jurors after they heard he used ‘bully-boy, intimidatory tactics’ to threaten the reporters who exposed him for stoking race riots in the UK from his sunbed in Cyprus.
The political activist sent photographers to their addresses and shared images of their homes with his millions of online followers.
Journalists Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber described how they ‘feared for their safety’ after Robinson sent them a series of posts and direct messages on social media platform X.
Robinson sent Mr Dirnhuber a message saying, ‘I’ll be knocking on your door’, and when a photo was posted on X of Mr Dirnhuber outside his home, he wrote: ‘Got ya.’
Robinson denied two charges of harassment causing fear of violence but now faces a possible jail term after he was convicted at Southwark Crown Court. He will be sentenced on December 16.
