Big Stacks was left bloodied after a heated clash with Jordan McCann at a Misfits Boxing promotional open workout in Manchester on June 10, and the blow may now threaten his scheduled debut on Saturday night.
The confrontation came in the middle of the official build-up to the Tommy Fury v Eddie Hall card at the AO Arena, where Big Stacks is due to face bodybuilder Armz Korleone for his first fight. McCann, who is set to meet Ibiza Final Boss Jack Kay on the undercard, was quickly pulled away by security after the altercation.
Onlookers reportedly said Big Stacks had approached Shane Fury and started a sharp verbal exchange before McCann stepped in. The sequence that followed was messy and fast: McCann briefly put him in a headlock, then threw a punch that appeared to catch him clean in the face. Big Stacks was left by the ring with visible blood from his nose and lip, a detail that made the scene impossible to dismiss as just another promotional scrap.
Big Stacks later posted a video showing a split lip and what he described as a wobbly tooth. He said he would need a medical assessment and that the result could put his fight in doubt. “Got a little bust lip, tooth’s a little wobbly, it is what it is. Life goes on, I don’t really give a f***, to be honest,” he said. He added: “But, let’s just see what the medical has to say because they’ll have a look because that might need stitches. What a f****** liberty that was.”
McCann gave his own account and said Shane Fury is a close friend and had his children at the venue. He said he acted because he felt Big Stacks was being disrespectful “for content,” a justification that sits awkwardly against the way people around the ring reportedly described the punch as a sucker punch. That split between provocation and perception is now the part that matters, because it leaves the question of intent beside the larger issue of whether Big Stacks is fit to fight at all.
That decision now sits with the medical assessment. If he is cleared, the debut goes ahead and the card keeps one of its newer names on Saturday night. If he is not, the Manchester incident will have done more than produce a bruised face: it will have pushed Big Stacks out of a fight he was supposed to use as his first real step into boxing.
