What REALLY triggered HSTikkyTokky’s boxing night riot between Tommy Robinson and Mo Deen, as Muslim influencer breaks cover to claim ‘set up’

The Muslim influencer at the heart of HSTikkyTokky’s shut-down influencer boxing night claims he was ‘told to’ attack Tommy Robinson in a ‘scripted’ moment that sparked a riot which saw a man stabbed and two arrests made.

The ‘Unhinged’ event, held in Kilkenny, Ireland and streamed to millions online was held ‘without any authorisation from anybody’, sources say, and promised to be a ‘proper scrap between the most chaotic names in the internet scene’ – with Muslim influencer Mo Deen and a rival calling himself MrTikTokUK on the undercard.

But the night, with a capacity of up to 2,000 young fans, had to be cancelled three fights before its conclusion when venue owners refused to let it continue.

HSTikkyTokky, the controversial British ‘manosphere’ influencer whose real name is Harrison Sullivan, is behind the Unhinged event company. He now claims it has been banned ‘worldwide’ in the wake of the carnage, while simultaneously talking up a fight card for next month – with hopes that far-Right activist Robinson will fight on it.

At the point of cancellation, Mo Deen had jumped from the ring to attack Robinson, metal chairs were being hurled across the crowd by fighting fans, Sullivan had been hit in the head by a glass bottle and racist and sexist comments were being broadcast on commentary online. Later, one man was stabbed and two people were arrested. One teenager has been charged.

Sullivan suggested the event had run ‘absolutely brilliantly’ because it was trending online. His claims of his company being cancelled appear to have little substance, sources close to boxing authorities say.

Mo Deen now says he has received death threats from Robinson’s supporters and, in one video, suggested he feared a ‘hit’ would be put out on him.

At the Hub in Kilkenny, a 1,900-capacity community venue which hosted The Boomtown Rats at the start of the year and is welcoming Irish singer Gavin James next month, an already violent event broke out into a brawl after an altercation between Robinson and Deen – whose real name is Mohammad Kubba.

Robinson, currently on bail after being found guilty in October of harassing two Daily Mail journalists in a campaign that caused them to fear for their safety, arrived in Kilkenny as a ringside guest, accompanied by a large contingent of his supporters. He is due back in court on December 16 for sentencing, with the hearing potentially to result in a custodial sentence. 

The chaotic scenes in Kilkenny were preceded by an equally unruly press conference on Friday evening, where multiple fighters launched themselves at one another in a series of violent clashes involving streamers, rappers, OnlyFans models and convicted sex offender-turned-YouTuber Paul Flaherty. 

Flaherty, who was jailed for five years in 2018 after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman he met on Tinder, had already been embroiled in a chaotic brawl at a Unhinged promotional event in September, with footage of the confrontation quickly going viral online. 

Tensions rose on Saturday night when Sullivan and his influencer friend Ed Matthews, who starred alongside HSTikkyTokky in Louis Theroux’s documentary Inside the Manosphere, invited Robinson to join them at the commentators’ desk before Deen’s fight.

Holding a copy of his book, The Grooming Gang Cover-Up, the 43-year-old activist made a series of inflammatory remarks about Islam, claiming that ‘Muslims have been raping our country for 100 years’ and citing false statistics about Muslim men and sexual offences.

After defeating MrTikTokUK, Deen – whose real name is Mohammad Kubba – climbed out of the ring and launched himself at Robinson with a flying kick, in a moment he has since claimed was staged and designed to raise tensions ahead of a potential future bout between the two.

The initial brawl spilled into the crowd but was largely contained by security, who managed to defuse the situation. Deen, 41, subsequently left the venue as the remaining bouts got underway, only to be escorted back inside by event security after it was claimed Sullivan called for him to return and face Robinson in the ring.

Sullivan has denied the claim as well as the claim by Deen that he was following a script. 

With tensions through the roof, and many racially diverse spectators left furious at Robinson’s previous remarks, the far-Right activist launched his book towards Deen, sparking a physical brawl that violently went out of control. 

Robinson was grabbed as punches were thrown, while people from both entourages were caught up in the melee. 

Violence quickly spread through the crowd, with chairs and metal barriers hurled across the venue, spectators exchanging blows and others scrambling to escape the commotion as security desperately attempted to intervene.

A string of videos showing people screaming, pushing and throwing punches were published to social media in real time as the chaos continued for approximately 20 minutes. Shouts of ‘Oh Tommy Robinson’ bellowed out from the riot before the livestream, which was broadcast on platform Kick to approximately 1.8million viewers, eventually cut to black.

Police, who had been alerted to disturbances at the venue before the mass brawl broke out, arrested and detained a man in his 20s after another man was stabbed and rushed to hospital earlier in the evening.

A teenager was also arrested by the Gardai and charged with violent disorder.

‘Gardai attended the scene of a number of incidents on the night of Saturday 7th November, 2026 at approximately 9pm at a premises on the Dublin Road, Kilkenny,’ a police statement read.

’One male, aged in his 30s was assaulted and removed from the scene to St. Luke’s Hospital. A man, aged in his 20s was arrested and is currently detained under Section 4 at a Garda station in the South East.

‘A second male was arrested, an adult in his teens, for violent disorder and has since been charged. He is due to appear in court later today, no court sitting has been set at this time. Investigations ongoing.’

Despite the arrests and widespread violence, Sullivan attempted to restart the remaining bouts without spectators, solely for the event’s livestream, before a visibly upset venue representative intervened to stop him. 

A spokesman for the Hub has since said in a statement to Kilkenny Live: ‘Following an incident the decision was made by the management of the venue to step in and stop the promotions company from continuing with their event.

‘The Hub has a zero-tolerance policy towards violence, aggression or disorderly behaviour.’

As the violence unfolded, Deen took to social media claiming his initial confrontation with Robinson had been staged for entertainment but spiralled out of control. 

As he and his entourage sought refuge in a small utility room, Deen urged that his post-fight fly kick was scripted as he hurriedly told his crew to ‘lock the doors’.

‘The whole place is surrounded,’ a concerned Deen said as wild shouting could be heard in the background.

‘There’s fights everywhere, we’re locked in a room right now. Listen I’ll make this clear to every single person in the UK. I’m not trying to cause problems. This is like WWE, they said this is what the situation is. I followed the script. 

‘I’m getting death threats, people trying to kill me. I don’t know about this, I just know this is what we had to do. Why is everyone trying to kill me right now?

‘This is a message to all supporters of Tommy, supporters, gangs, whatever you are. I just followed the script they told me to agree with. Tommy’s agreed to it, they’ve agreed to it, I followed it.’

‘Look at my hands bro,’ he added looking visibly shaken. ‘My guys are getting rushed, look at my friend’s face bro. This whole thing is crazy.’

Deen went on to plead with Elon Musk, whom he described as one of Robinson’s ‘friends’, and the activist’s wider network of supporters not to ‘put a hit out’ on him. 

‘A fight is a fight, hopefully anyone who is with Tommy and is friends and that, Elon Musk or whatever, don’t put hits out on me,’ he added, holding his hand to his heart.

Sullivan, who initially stated that the event went ‘absolutely brilliantly’ because it was trending globally, has refuted Deen’s claims that the fight and aftermath was staged.

In a video on his YouTube channel, Sullivan said: ‘I was sat next to Tommy. Do you think that I wanted to get f***ing fly-kicked and f***ing some fat belly over me? My watch nearly got popped off. Do you think that that was a plan? No. The plan was for them to face off in the ring.’

The 25-year-old manosphere influencer also dismissed claims that he intentionally attempted to stage an impromptu bare-knuckle fight between Robinson and Deen when the Muslim fighter was escorted back into the venue.

According to The Guardian, Sullivan repeatedly shouted ‘let Tommy fight him’ while Robinson’s entourage – referred to by the YouTuber as ‘Tommy’s boys’ – were permitted to enter the ring to face off with Deen and Co.

He added: ‘What is that nonsense? You think I would want them to have a bare-knuckle fight for free, not to just face off and hype up the next event?’

Sources have told Daily Mail Sport influencer events such as Saturday’s Unhinged 003 tend to take place without authorisation from any official boxing body.

HSTikkyTokky had promoted the event as a ‘proper scrap between two of the most chaotic names in the internet scene’, with British rappers Russ Millions and Kirky set to headline a card that was ultimately abandoned before their bout could take place. 

After initially hinting that a potential bout between Robinson and Deen had been in the works for next month, Sullivan appeared crestfallen on a later video as he called an end to Unhinged Promotions, claiming they had been shut down from operating ‘worldwide’.

‘I’ve had a lot of messages from police around the world, message from the boxing commission… I am not allowed to put an Unhinged event on anymore after Tommy Robinson riots at Kilkenny last night,’ he said on his channel.

‘Obviously it’s massively disappointing, I wanted to grow the company Unhinged Promotions, I wanted to make it massive and huge and take over the world but the risks that have come in play from the decisions some of my staff have made has now led to us having to cancel any future event. We won’t be back, but I will sure be supporting some of the other promotions around the world.

‘I just want to apologise to the internet. I didn’t want to ever have to put on events that risked the safety of people that came to support. I’m super sorry and I won’t be doing an event again. I wish I could, but I’m not allowed to now.’

In case the message wasn’t already clear, he stated again: ‘There is no venue around the world that will take me, there is literally nothing I can do. I feel cornered, I feel lost, I feel gutted. I feel jobless, this was my passion, my desire, my life. 

Now it’s been taken away from me over something that was meant to be a light-hearted promotion for the next event. I’m gutted and I want to say again, sorry to everyone.’ 

Sullivan’s self-pitying demeanour offered a stark contrast to the buoyant figure he immediately cut after the chaotic event, which he claimed went ‘absolutely brilliantly’. Footage from earlier in the night had shown him being hit by a glass bottle thrown from the crowd while he stood in the ring.

Thrilled that Unhinged’s third event had trended globally on social media platforms as a result of the riots, he said: ‘I think it went absolutely brilliantly. Listen it was controversial as f*** but please tell me other promotion on their third event is trending globally on Twitter like this, has generated over 200 million views across TikTok, Twitter and Instagram.

‘So everyone who’s hating, you’re clearly still watching. The fights were absolutely brilliant up until the venue got closed down. 

‘I’m gutted that we didn’t get to see the final three fights but s*** happens. I totally hold accountability for misjudging the amount of security that was needed and the types of people that were coming. I misjudged that.

‘But what I won’t listen to is that wasn’t a f***ing great night of entertainment. It was huge. Every single person is watching what I do. Every single person likes to talk about what I do because I’m the number one at what I do.’

Sullivan has seen other boxing events shut down in the past. In January, he complained that ‘hundreds’ of complainants had called the local council and police to cancel a show in Basildon, saying that one of his fighters was a ‘convicted child predator’. 

The mayor of Kilkenny called the scenes this weekend ‘absolutely disgraceful’. Andrew McGuinness said on local radio station KCLR: ‘I am absolutely disgusted Kilkenny was used as a backdrop for such a horrendously managed event.

‘They are grooming young people to behave in a way that’s absolutely disgraceful. They have no respect for themselves, no respect for other people and particularly no respect for women.

‘They groom thousands of people into going to these events. The fact there were minors and teenagers at the event is just absolutely appalling.’