![]() ![]() But everyone has their own theory, and most point to an unlikely source: everyone’s favourite TikTok goalie, Cal the Dragon, who was profiled in THE FACE last summer. Where, how and why all of this started is like asking how EastEnders began – it’s probably the wrong question. Even if you do, there’s a chance you’ve missed out simply because of what you click on and the recommendations the app offers you next. Floor tickets are sold out, remaining seats start at £40, and pay-per-views on YouTube are expected to make the participants a hefty profit.Īnd yet, if you don’t have TikTok, this whole thing has probably passed you by entirely. On 16 th July, the biggest beefers will head to London’s Indigo at the O2 for Scores Settled, an actual, IRL boxing event that will continue the online-personality-to-competitive-fighter pipeline popularised by KSI and Jake Paul, but with a TikTok twist. This soap’s storyline has its own season finale scrawled into the calendar. And a big fanbase invested in this weirdly engrossing drama, with just one subsection of the plot gaining 5.4 million views? Big ticks all round. An ever-evolving, hugely complicated plot, with no particular start point and no definite end? Tick. A second layer of supporting characters, all eccentric but kind of loveable at the same time? Tick. It has all the ingredients of a classic drama, played out online and stretched into a long-running saga that has the capacity to take minutes, hours and days out of your life.Ī core group of main characters, bound by unshakeable loyalty or at each other’s throats? Tick. This dramatic moment is one instalment of a British TikTok soap opera that’s swept the digital nation. Cue pandemonium in the room, a mass brawl and a deluge of comments from delirious fans watching the livestream. With the atmosphere increasingly febrile, Matthews upped the ante by dropping his trousers to reveal a pair of boxer shorts with Keeley’s face printed on the front. With no actual members of the press in attendance, and one viewer comparing the venue to a Tesco staffroom, hopes of a detailed, illuminating presser departed long before any of the group opened their mouths.Ī slanging match ensued, with each side trading insults (mostly regarding what each would or would not do to their respective mums). On the left, fitness fanatic and livestreaming lothario Ed Matthews ( 181.2k followers) and his Lambo-flaunting gym buddy, who goes by the initials HS ( a whopping 879.4k followers). On the right, non-league football coach Simon Colbran ( 398.3k followers) and his 19-year-old daughter Keeley ( 360.6k followers). Up for debate: the origins of their rapidly expanding beef. He only needs to catch hold of one of my right hands and then he's going to know about it," he added.In April 2022, two warring TikTok clans gathered around a peculiarly shaped office desk to live broadcast a press conference. If I can get through two rounds, we'll see what happens in the third but I think I can take him. "He's going to come out 100 miles an hour because he isn't going to go five rounds, I don't think he's done one training session in his life. Colbran expects Matthews to come firing out of the blocks tomorrow night and thinks his advantage will come in the later rounds. The rivals came to blows at their first press conference for the fight in London last month after Matthews produced a sex toy for Colbran to gift to his daughter. Who wins, Simple Simon or Ed Matthews? Let us know your prediction in the comments section below I saw jigging around a bit to the song, but he's going to be jigging around tomorrow and it won't be dancing that's for sure." he admitted that he didn't write the lyrics for the track on his own, stating: "Someone did write them for me to be fair but I was helping out with it. "I was carrying a little bit but nothing too serious so all I've done is toned up, so I've lost four kilograms just through toning.Ĭolbran had a surprise for Matthews before weighing in, producing a cringeworthy 'diss track' that his rival was impressed with. It's not major amounts, four kilograms, but it is for my size," he told Mirror Fighting. "I weighed 82kg before starting training and on the night I'm going to be around 78kg. The TikTok star has lost four kilograms during his preparations ![]()
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