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Andrew Tate<\/a> is set to compete in a boxing<\/a> match organised by Misfits<\/a>, claiming he is replacing YouTube star KSI<\/a> as the fight promotion\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n

Tate, a British-American influencer, is due to fight TV personality Chase DeMoor, 29, in Dubai on 20 December.<\/p>\n

Tate, 38, is a former professional kickboxer with a record of 76 wins (32 knockouts), 9 losses and 1 draw, and he has also competed in mixed martial arts. His Misfits bout \u2013 a heavyweight contest \u2013 will mark his boxing debut.<\/p>\n

However, Tate is best known as an influencer. A self-described \u201cmisogynist\u201d who flaunts his lavish lifestyle on social media, Tate has faced numerous allegations of rape and human trafficking. Tate and his 37-year-old brother Tristan, who has also faced accusations of rape and human trafficking, both deny all of the allegations against them.<\/p>\n

This May, the UK Crown Prosecution Service<\/a> brought 21 charges against the brothers. The Service said Andrew faces 10 charges relating to three alleged victims \u2013 including rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain \u2013 while Tristan faces 11 charges pertaining to one alleged victim, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking.<\/p>\n

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Tate has faced numerous allegations of rape and human trafficking (AP Photo\/Vadim Ghirda, File)<\/p>\n

The Crown Prosecution Service said it had authorised the charges against the Tate brothers in 2024, before a warrant for their extradition from Romania, where they reside and are also under investigation. The brothers are also reported to be under investigation in the US.<\/p>\n

Andrew Tate last fought in December 2020, winning a kickboxing match with Cosmin Lingurar via second-round technical knockout. That result in Bucharest saw him build on two previous stoppage wins in the Romanian capital earlier in the year: a February victory over Iulian Strugariu and a November win against Miralem Ahmeti.<\/p>\n

Now he ventures into boxing, as part of the Misfits promotion formerly \u2013 per his claim \u2013 headed up by KSI.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to your new CEO, it wasn\u2019t a hostile takeover but it was certainly planned,\u201d said Tate in an announcement video, \u201cand Mams [Taylor] and I are going to be working together to finally put Misfits where it belongs on the world stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe largest disruptive force in sports entertainment history, so considering that somebody that failed at their obligations to make this organisation as big as it should\u2019ve been has been ousted and I\u2019m the new CEO,\u201d Tate claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cKSI tweeted something that annoyed me three years ago, so long story short: I took his company from him,\u201d Tate added in an interview with Fred Talks Fighting on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd considering that I\u2019m the largest name on the planet, if I\u2019m gonna fight on an organisation, why not fight on an organisation that I own a percentage of? It makes a lot of business sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

YouTuber KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, launched Misfits in 2021 and fought five times under the promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}