{"id":771873,"date":"2026-09-15T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771873\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:46:20","slug":"police-update-on-misfits-boxing-event-brawls-in-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771873\/","title":{"rendered":"Police update on Misfits Boxing event brawls in Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Officers were called to the Misfits Boxing event at Utilita Arena on Saturday (September 12) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/26546378.four-arrested-fights-newcaslte-misfits-boxing-event\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after viral videos showed disturbances involving a number of people.\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Four people were arrested on suspicion of assault &#8211; however it has now been confirmed that they have since been released with no further action.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Northumbria Police has launched an investigation into the fights and is continuing to identify all those involved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\n  Several videos of the incidents were posted and shared on X over the weekend, with one video showing security staff trying to break up the altercations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A force spokesperson said yesterday: \u201cWe want to make it clear that behaviour of this kind will not be tolerated.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe safety of the public is our utmost priority and enquiries are ongoing to identify all of those involved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAnyone with information should contact us online via direct message on social media or submit a report form on our website.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Members of the public can contact police online via direct message on social media or by submitting a report form on the force website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were called to the Misfits Boxing event at Utilita Arena on Saturday (September 12) after viral videos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}