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Andrew Tate Copying One of Floyd Mayweather’s Most Brutal Tricks Ahead of Boxing Fight
Andrew Tate is turning into the crossover boxing version of Floyd Mayweather in more ways than one.
The controversial influencer, a former kickboxer, has returned to combat sports as the so-called Combat Executive Officer of upstart fight firm Misfits Boxing, ousting KSI from a similar role. In his debut fight with the outlaw organization, he takes on American TV personality turned fighter Chase DeMoor on the 20th of December in Dubai.
It’s been a long road back to fighting life for Tate, who has been preparing for the event at a gym in the United Arab Emirates. And, speaking to YouTube channel Seconds Out, he explained that he’s mimicking one of Mayweather’s most brutal tricks. But the comparisons don’t stop there.
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Andrew Tate is Copying Floyd Mayweather’s Brutal Training Methods
A former five-weight world champion, Mayweather is far more elite, and accomplished, than Tate. But through his years defeating the likes of Oscar de la Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, and Conor McGregor, he rarely wavered from a wildly controversial training style that Tate has seemingly sought to replicate.
Seconds Out said during the interview that they noticed when Tate walked into the gym, the air-conditioner was turned on, but he requested that it be kept off. “I like it to be hot, and to sweat, to simulate the lights,” said Tate.
“I don’t like a cool gym or a too comfortable gym. I like it nitty-gritty, and old fashioned.”
He continued: “You see Rocky 2 or 3 where Rocky has to go back to Apollo’s gym and learn how to fight, for real. That’s how I grew up when I first started training, and that’s how I want to train for this fight.”
Floyd Mayweather Was no Different
This is uncannily similar to the way in which Mayweather trained, and continues to operate his Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.
GIVE ME SPORT reporter Alan Dawson has visited Mayweather’s gym countless times and always noted how, despite it often exceeding 100 Fahrenheit outside in Vegas, the Mayweather Boxing Club, unlike pretty much every facility in the city, doesn’t ever turn it’s AC vents on.
“It’s how Floyd Mayweather always had it,” one GIVE ME SPORT source there at the time told us.
“You can’t cook with cold grease.”
Whether there’s any merit in that remains to be seen, but the comparisons don’t stop there, as both Mayweather and Tate are known for their brutal approach to sparring in the ring, with Mayweather preferring the “Doghouse” style, which is where there is one never-ending round and the spar only stops when one of the fighters effectively quits. Tate, meanwhile, has recruited numerous sparring partners into camp and has already been seen sporting a black eye. Both Mayweather and Tate are also noted for their unconventional and awkward defensive capabilities.
The Tate vs DeMoor fight airs as a Misfits event on Rumble.
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