Andrew Tate Explains Black Eye Injury & Targets 2 MASSIVE Boxing Bouts

Controversial podcaster, Andrew Tate, is just five weeks away from making his Misfits boxing debut in a heavyweight title fight against the promotion’s champion Chase DeMoor on the 20th of December, and the 38-year-old took a break from training to show off his latest injury.

Tate could be seen with a black eye forming because of grotesque swelling, likely caused by a punch, from an intense sparring session that took place in the Middle East. When speaking to iFL TV, Tate lifted the lid on the sparring, and also explained his priorities for future opponents — including two of the biggest names in crossover boxing.

Tate became headline news in combat sport last month when Misfits co-founder Mams Taylor claimed KSI had effectively been ousted from the CEO role in favor of Tate, who not only takes over as ‘combat executive officer,’ he will elevate the league by having a fight of his own. Now, it’s becoming clear how seriously he is taking his training, and who Tate could fight next in 2026.

Andrew Tate Explains Black Eye Injury

Describing his boxing style, and the level of fighter that he’s recruited to Dubai to help prepare him for a Misfits heavyweight title fight against DeMoor, Tate told iFL TV: “I am quite awkward, but I had some really high-level competition [in sparring]. We had some UFC guys, some UFC veterans, and a couple of them caught me with some shots,” he said, explaining his bruising.

“But that’s what you need to constantly push yourself, challenge yourself, and I’m lucky enough to have sparring that I believe is harder than my opponent for this camp, which is an interesting place to be.”

Considering the kickboxing experience Tate had, it would be no surprise to see him breeze past DeMoor. And, with the Misfits heavyweight title around his waist, his star power in crossover combat could be catapulted even further. Tate has said before that he’d like to be an active competitor in 2026 and even envisions up to 10 fights that year. And so it begs the question of who Tate could fight next.

Darren Till has four wins in a row since crossing over into boxing, including knockout wins over Anthony Taylor and Luke Rockhold, to put a punctuation mark on an extraordinary second wave having lost three in a row before exiting UFC a few years back. And Tate showed clear interest in scrapping with the former MMA star.

“I’ll get this fight out the way first,” he said. “[But] Darren is someone who I like. He’s funny, a cool guy. I’ve watched his UFC career. He’s very talented. They’ve talked to me about fighting on Misfits, and [then] he popped up and wanted to fight. I’m the most money, I get it. [But] he started tweeting weird s***.

But Till isn’t the only opponent Tate has one eye on.

Tate described a fight with Jake Paul as being the biggest bout he’d likely be involved in. “It would be [for] quite a lot of money,” he said. “We faced-off and then I got thrown in jail, so there was a slight delay.”

Tate added: “Jake is a little shorter than me. Everyone talks about Jake being a YouTuber, but he’s not. He’s a boxer who trains full-time, a lot of money. He’s a serious competitor. It would make a lot more money than Darren [Till].”