\n Police were called to the Misfits Boxing event at Utilita Arena on Saturday (September 12) after viral videos showed disturbances involving a number of people.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Officers attended and arrested four people on suspicion of assault – with Northumbria Police saying that no serious injuries have been reported.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Several videos of fights at the venue have been posted and shared on X, with one video showing security staff trying to break up the altercations.\n<\/p>\n
\n Thousands flocked to the event on Saturday night to watch the \u201cUK\u2019s hardest man\u201d Big Stacks triumph over Jordan McCann.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A force spokesperson said enquiries now remain ongoing into incidents at the venue, with officers trying to identify all those involved.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The statement said: “We are aware of videos circulating online in relation to disturbances involving a number of people in attendance at a boxing event in Newcastle city centre yesterday (Saturday).\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOfficers attended and arrested four individuals on suspicion of assault, with no serious injuries reported to us. We want to make it clear that behaviour of this kind will not be tolerated.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe safety of the public is our utmost priority and enquiries are ongoing to identify all of those involved.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnyone with information should contact us online via direct message on social media or submit a report form on our website.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to the Misfits Boxing event at Utilita Arena on Saturday (September 12) after viral videos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-890839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}