Deen the Great is addressing a viral altercation that left him on the ground after a heated confrontation with retired MMA fighter Tiki Ghosn.
Speaking on Andy Bachman’s Creators Think Podcast, the influencer boxer reflected on the incident, which spread widely across social media and reignited debate around influencer boxing and online provocations.
“All men take Ls, you know, I just took it publicly,” Deen said. “You know, and it is what it is what it is.”
Bachman pushed back, saying, “Well, I think it’s a W. I’m gonna go on record,” adding, “You got sucker punched twice. You deserve both of them.”
“You think so?” Deen replied.
“Yeah,” Bachman answered.
The confrontation stemmed from a tense exchange in which Deen approached Ghosn and questioned whether the former fighter recognized him.
The situation escalated after Ghosn referenced a previous viral clip in which powerlifter Larry Wheels slapped Deen during a separate encounter.
On the podcast, Bachman described the elbow strike that dropped Deen as excessive.
“I, I’m, I’m saying I think, I think it was a cheap shot,” he said. “It was for sure a cheap shot. I’m gonna call it the way I see it. I think you put yourself in that position. I think you said to him, like, obviously I’m gonna smack you and he’s a grown man and who knows how he’s gonna handle that, but You were turned away, moving away. I don’t think you were a threat to him in that moment, and he, and he just clocked you. Like, so that, that to me was very much a cheap shot, but honestly, the slap hurt my jaw more than, more than the elbow.”
Deen said he has no plans to pursue legal action.
“People say take the legal route, but I don’t, you know, it’s like I kind of put myself in it, you know, no, no route and he’s best friends with Dana White, probably got. UFC lawyers and shit. I’m not suing over some shit like that. I’m a fighter, bro. I ain’t no bitch. Shit, it happens, shit happens.”
He added, “You don’t use a legal route like if your feelings are hurt. Like if you, if you, if you were incapacitated and you could never work again and you had to go that route to that, that’s different, right? Feed your family or some shit and you had to get compensated, maybe, but if you saw me and I was in a coma, right, then that’s something different.”