Two live confrontations in under 24 hours put the influencer boxer’s reckless behavior on full display — and the internet watched every second.
In less than a day, influencer boxer Deen the Great — born Nurideen Shahid Shabazz — turned two separate live broadcasts into physical altercations witnessed by thousands of viewers in real time. Both incidents unfolded on the streaming platform Kick, both went viral almost immediately, and both followed the same pattern. Shabazz pushed boundaries until someone pushed back — hard.
The Double-Date Stream Where It All Unraveled
On February 16, 2026, retired UFC fighter Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson hosted a casual double-date livestream on Kick alongside powerlifter Larry Wheels and his wife Sheyla Wheels. The group had just left a restaurant when the mood turned. Deen, who viewers widely described as visibly intoxicated, began directing repeated and unwanted attention toward Sheyla while her husband stood directly beside her.
Jackson stepped in early and plainly. He told Deen to show respect and stop disrespecting another man’s partner. He even attempted to ease the tension with humor at one point, clearly hoping to lower the temperature before things escalated further. It did not work.
Deen kept arguing. He claimed Wheels had handled him aggressively and refused to stand down. He insisted Sheyla was fair game despite the ongoing warnings from those around him. When he moved toward her again and asked for a hug, Wheels did not hesitate. The powerlifter delivered a slap forceful enough to send Deen stumbling out of the camera frame entirely. Wheels made clear he had been waiting for that moment, while Jackson laughed and told Deen it was time to go.
The clip spread across platforms almost instantly. A single TikTok upload from the TMZ account surpassed 1.1 million views within hours. Instagram engagement climbed to nearly 40,000 likes in the first two hours, and Reddit’s LivestreamFail community generated hundreds of comments debating who bore responsibility for the night’s escalation.
The Second Strike Later That Same Night
The night was far from over. During a late-night house party stream also hosted by Jackson, Deen grew increasingly disruptive. Witnesses on the broadcast described him making derogatory comments and, at one point, threatening to slap former UFC fighter and sports manager Tiki Ghosn. Multiple people attempted to calm him down before the situation crossed into physical territory once more.
Ghosn, who built his career in mixed martial arts between 1998 and 2009 and has managed Jackson for years, responded with a sharp elbow strike to Deen’s face. The influencer stumbled backward. The moment was captured live and circulated widely on social media within the hour, drawing significant reaction from viewers who had already seen the earlier incident with Wheels.
Two confrontations. One night. Both on camera.
A Pattern That Predates This Weekend
This was not Deen’s first brush with controversy. At a December Misfits Boxing press event ahead of his fight with Amado Vargas, he directed insulting comments toward Vargas’ mother from the stage. The remarks drew swift backlash. Vargas went on to defeat him by unanimous decision, handing Deen his first professional loss. He has not fought since.
The back-to-back incidents on Jackson’s streams fit a pattern that those inside the streaming and combat sports communities had already begun to notice. His approach to live content has consistently involved deliberate boundary-testing that many viewers find intentionally provocative — and others find increasingly dangerous.
What Deen’s Night Reveals About Livestreaming Culture
Two confrontations in one night, both live and both viral, raised broader questions about how platforms and creators manage escalating situations in real time. Unlike incidents that surface later through leaked footage, thousands of people watched both altercations unfold as they happened. Jackson’s repeated attempts to intervene in the first incident were widely recognized as genuine efforts at de-escalation — efforts that Deen ignored entirely.
For the streaming community, the weekend served as a stark illustration of how quickly unstructured live content can spiral out of control, and how permanent the consequences of on-camera behavior have become. What happens live, stays live — forever.
