But you can hear in the dialogue between them there really is a beef between TikTok and YouTube.'īut a little over two weeks after the event, some talent, including influencers and fight commentators, have spoken out on social media saying they have yet to be paid what they're owed.

'Some of the kids said it was money, and it definitely is money. 'You have to have a reason to get in the ring,' Rob Ellin, CEO of the event's producer LiveXLive, told Insider in May. The pay-per-view boxing event, 'Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms,' was framed as a match-up between TikTok and YouTube influencers in order to settle 'beef' between the two social-media cohorts. When a group of internet stars signed on to fight one another in Miami's Hard Rock Stadium on June 12, many did so with the expectation that they'd receive a big paycheck. Social Gloves said it hopes to 'pay every fighter and every talent' in a 'reasonable timeframe.'.But while talent were offered hefty paychecks for participating, some say they haven't been paid.

14 YouTube and TikTok stars entered the ring during the 'Social Gloves' boxing match on June 12.

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