ANDREW TATE has announced a controversial move into the world of Misfits Boxing.
Tate – a former kickboxing world champion – is one of the most controversial figures in the world and is involved in multiple ongoing criminal and civil cases.
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Controversial figure Andrew Tate will make his Misfits Boxing debut at ChristmasCredit: EPA
The social media influencer – accused of using his platform to spread misogyny – is facing legal cases in the UK, US and Romania, all of which he denies.
But after being released from judicial monitoring in Romania, Tate and his brother Tristan returned to Dubai in April.
And it is there that he will make a hugely controversial move to Misfits – home of celebrity-style crossover bouts.
Tate, 38, will face the Misfits heavyweight “champion” Chase DeMoor, 29, on December 20 at the Coca-Cola Arena.
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Mams Taylor, who co-founded Misfits alongside KSI, has claimed to have sacked the YouTuber-turned-boxer as the CEO.
And says Tate – while criminal investigations remain ongoing – has replaced KSI.
Tate said: “Say hello to your new CEO. I wouldn’t say it was a hostile takeover but it was certainly planned.
“Mams and I are going to be working together to finally put Misfits where it belongs on the world stage. The largest, disruptive force in sports entertainment history.
“Considering that somebody failed at their obligations to make this organisation as big as it should have been and ousted, and I’m the new CEO, I guess it’s my job to make the most entertaining fights.
“Who’s the person who everybody wants to see fight? Who’s the guy that everybody will tune in to watch fight? It’s me. Isn’t that convenient?
“I heard he’s a great guy, easy to work with, and for that reason, I myself am going to be fighting as CEO on the next Misfits show, December 20th here in Dubai.
“And if I’m going to fight, I mean it’s been a while and if I’m going to train and get in there I may as well do it for a belt. And if it’s going to be for a belt it may as well be for the biggest one.
“So I, as CEO, order a mandatory title defence for the heavyweight Misfits belt between myself, Andrew The Top G King Cobra Tate against Chase DeMoor.
“You don’t have a chance, you don’t have a choice, Chase. You have to do it, it’s mandatory. So I strongly recommend you train.
“You may be younger, than I am, you may be more active, you may be bigger. But everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. December 20th, Misfits, our largest show ever produced here in Dubai and I will be headlining.”
Tate was a four-time kickboxing world champ but retired in 2020.
The American-born Brit also had five MMA bouts with a 3-2 record and one professional boxing fight – which he won in 2010.
DeMoor meanwhile – a star of Netflix show Too Hot to Handle – has 14 boxing matches in the space of three years.
The controversial announcement comes a month after Tate’s rape charges in the UK were dropped.
Three women in their late twenties and early thirties accused Tate of rape and sexual and physical assaults – including holding guns to their heads and strangulations with belts.
But the Crown Prosecution Service said on September 29 that the evidence did not meet the threshold to bring criminal charges, and they would be dropped – though the civil case continues.
Reacting to the news, Tate posted on X: “Romania? No case UK? No case USA? No case 4 months in jail, 3 years locked in my house.
“Endless media slander. 25million dollars stolen from me. Lawfare? – I’m one of the most mistreated men in history beside president Trump himself.”
The women brought a civil case against Tate at the High Court after the CPS originally decided not to prosecute in 2019.
The civil case against Tate, brought by three women, still stands and is due to start in June 2026.
Tate denies the allegations, with his lawyers saying in his written defence that the claims are false and that all sexual activity was consensual.
Tate and his brother Tristan were then criminally charged with rape and a string of other offences against four women in the UK back in May of this year.
Tate was accused of ten criminal charges in total.
These included rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain against three women.
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One of the women claims Tate threatened to kill her and another says he made clear he would kill anyone who spoke to her.
A third claims Tate convinced her he had actually killed other people.
