A female boxer who beat her 'mumfluencer' archnemesis in a brutal backyard bout has unleashed after she was allegedly stripped of her 'title' and not paid her fight fee.
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Brisbane-based content creator Sapphire Killeen, 29, fought Gold Coast mum Madi Hale in the garden of a home near Logan, in south-east Queensland, on September 5.
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The match-up in 30C conditions was organised by Tee Utia, the founder of unregulated boxing organisation, The Fight Yard.
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It was held in front of an unruly crowd held back by worksite safety bunting and security, rather than a traditional roped-off boxing ring.
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Attendees paid $50 per ticket, and Killeen says fighters were promised a cut of tickets they personally sold to followers, rather than a set prize purse.
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The 'Queen of the Yard' bout was planned after the two women traded verbal blows online in recent months, with Killeen accusing Hale of cheating on a partner.
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Killeen had previously called out Gold Coast influencer Jess Te Huia to fight her following the now-infamous Stepmum in the Bed saga revealed in the Daily Mail.
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Some in Hale's camp alleged Killeen had 'set up a page exposing [Hale's personal] business', which Killeen denied.
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Brisbane influencer Sapphire Killeen was originally crowned the victor
But she was stripped of her title within days, and has not received her appearance fee
Mother-of-three Hale then reportedly challenged Killeen to settle their differences in the boxing ring and Killeen began working with Utia to organise the fight.
New Zealand-born Killeen emerged the victor after three punishing rounds - but the fight descended into chaos after she was crowned the winner.
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The organisers claimed Killeen's camp had live-streamed some of the fight, which breached her contract, and refused to pay the $2,353 she was due from ticket sales.
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Killeen said she had been planning to donate her earnings to Lifeline in honour of her father who died by suicide two years ago.
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Marketing company The Brand Link Agency has since donated the amount to Lifeline on Killeen's behalf.
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Killeen told the Daily Mail that the organisers had earlier agreed to the competitors live-streaming, 'but then on the day, there was a contract in place saying that we couldn't livestream'.
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'We stopped it there.
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And then we have gone in [to the venue] and saw that everyone else was recording, so we're just going to do it too because that wasn't fair,' she said.
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The Fight Yard then announced on social media last week that, 'following a review of everything that occurred before, during, and after' the event...
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Sapphire has officially been stripped of the Queen of the Yard title'.
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Gold Coast mother-of-three Madi Hale has since been crowned Queen of the Yard
Killeen previously 'called out' Jess Te Huia, of the infamous Daily Mail Stepmum in the Bed saga
'The decision follows multiple issues that TFY considers to be breaches of the rules and conditions outlined in her signed fighter agreement, as well as the ongoing conduct surrounding the event.
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Killeen said being stripped of her win 'felt like a personal attack' because she had called the organisers out on social media for not sending her payment.
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Hale said in the days before the fight, organisers claimed they had already sent her money, but after calling her bank, found it had never been sent.
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She accused Utia of 'faking' a bank transfer receipt.
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Killeen said that in the days before the fight, she began to feel the organisers were 'siding' with Hale - and speculated it may have been due to Hale's higher social media reach.
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Hale has 120,000 followers on Instagram, compared to Killeen's 20,000.
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'The energy was just off... there were so many things where I was just like, "These guys are not on my team at all".
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Maybe because there's some sort of following on the other side, it benefitted them.'
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The Fight Yard founder Tee Utia took to TikTok to defend his bank transfer to Killeen
Killeen alleged Utia's wife Genesis approached her minutes before she was due to step into the 'ring', and warned her to ensure the fight lasted three rounds, but to avoid injuring Hale because she was a mother.
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She said, "Madi's got her three girls to go home to, and at that point I was just like, "Are you serious?"
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Once she mentioned her daughters, I was taken aback.
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I was like, we both agreed to this.
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We knew what we were doing.
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On social media, Killeen has separately said Genesis also asked her to avoid 'bruising' Madi's face.
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Once in the ring, feeling deeply suspicious of the whole set-up, Killeen said she began to feel 'unsafe'.
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'I didn't know what could happen next,' she said.
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Still, Killeen rained blow after blow on her opponent, and on the day had her arm raised in victory by a masked referee.
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Soon after the bout, Hale supporters claimed the women's weights were ill-matched - something that is carefully regulated by sanctioned boxing organisations.
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Killeen told the Daily Mail she began to feel 'unsafe' as the fight began
Unperturbed by the drama, Killeen said she was initially 'over the moon' about her win.
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'I did it for the cause [Lifeline], I made my family proud, all those types of feelings,' she said.
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'Straight from the beginning, [the organisers] knew that's what it was for... not just for my dad, but lots of loved ones I've lost from suicide.
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But even while basking in the victory, she still felt something wasn't right.
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'The bias thing, it comes into play constantly, because it just felt like that the whole time.
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