Andrew Tate

As a kickboxer, Tate is a three time ISKA Kickboxing world champion and Enfusion Live champion. Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, he fought out of Luton, Great Britain until his retirement. Tate made his return in February 2020 at KO Masters 7 in Bucharest, Romania where he currently resides.

In 2016, Tate competed as an "other" housemate on the seventeenth season of the British version of the Dutch reality television series Big Brother. One week into the show, Tate was removed from the show for actions outside the house prior to the competition. It was later revealed that Tate had been removed due to a video, obtained by The Sun, of him allegedly "hitting a girl with a belt". Tate said that the actions were consensual, the belt was actually made of felt, and that The Sun had edited the video significantly to make him look bad. In a Facebook video, he claimed the real reason he was removed was because the programme's producers were "worried" about his "master plan", which was denied by Channel 5.

After taking four victories in Enfusion Live ring during 2013 over David Radeff, Marino Schouten, Marlon Hunt and Laszlo Szabo, Tate participated in a four-man tournament to determine Enfusion Live −85 kg World Champion, alongside Mirko Cingel, Jiří Žák and Rustam Guseinov. Tournament was held in Žilina, Slovakia on April 26, 2014, Tate lost in semi-finals to local fighter and tournament winner, Miroslav Cingel, via unanimous decision.

Despite losing in the semi-finals of tournament for Enfusion Live −85 kg championship Tate got opportunity to fight for Enfusion Live −90 kg championship against kickboxing veteran Wendell Roche on June 28, 2014. Andrew won the title in second round, becoming the second fighter that stopped Roche in his 200 fight career.

Tate avenged a 2011 loss to Vincent Petitjean and won his second ISKA world title in twelve rounds of two minutes. Fight was held in Châteaurenard, France on March 9, 2013 with Tate taking ISKA World Full-Contact Light Cruiserweight Championship via split decision. Andrew defended title one year later, also on Power Trophy event, stopping Cyril Vetter early in the first round.

Andrew Tate lost his It's Showtime 85MAX title against champion Sahak Parparyan on May 12, 2012 in Kortrijk, Belgium on points. .

On December 2, 2012 Tate participated in Enfusion 3: Trial of the Gladiators reality final tournament, to determine No. 1 kickboxer of the world in −85 kg category at that time. He qualified for tournament in August 2011 in Ohrid, Macedonia stopping Sammy Masa by second-round KO and Adnan Omeragić by first-round KO. He scored a victory in semi-finals knocking out Ritchie Hocking with punches in the first round, but lost in the final via first round flying knee KO from Franci Grajš, who fought hard battle in semi-final against Sahak Parparyan.

Tate later scored a few more victories and won the IKF- International Kickboxing Federation British Cruiserweight title against Daniel Hughes with a first-round KO, then on March 19, 2011 he fought for the first time for ISKA world title in France. Andrew lost the fight for the vacant ISKA world Full-Contact light heavyweight championship to Jean Luc Benoit on points after 12 rounds however contested that he was the true winner. Three months later they had rematch in Luton, England, but this time Tate became champion defeating Benoit via KO in round 8 of the scheduled 12 rounds.

After beating former Super-cruiserweight British Champions Ollie Green and Mo Karbo, Tate challenged Paul Randall for the vacant ISKA English Kickboxing Light-cruiserweight title. Tate won his first ISKA Kickboxing title stopping Randall in the fifth round of their bout in Derby on April 25, 2009.

Emory Andrew Tate III (born December 1, 1986) is an American–British cruiserweight kickboxer, mixed martial artist, businessman, sports commentator and vlogger.