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What did you do to do with Andrew? Andrew came to me when he was, I think, 17. Just short of 17, nearly 18. Of course, he grew up in America, so as you know, in the schools, he did wrestling and a lot of different martial arts. I think he did a bit of judo and karate and some boxing. Nothing like in particular or too much.
him and his brother Basically buttering them, they're deadly to call a taxi to get home, they only live five minutes away from where he used to train or where he used to live so So he came a long way, you know, you can't... Andrew is probably... I don't know, the last five to ten years, possibly the last like, yeah, five ten years
and he had some good fights. He didn't really lose either for a long time. He made the one fight recently, the last fight obviously in the infusion. He lost by knockout so he's his first time. So he's coming back now from the knockout so we'll see how you'll cope with it. But I know he's okay because he understands you know everyone gets caught and it's the way it works and the guy that catch him well and there's nothing you can do you know once you're out you're out.
Emotionally, fighting's a scary thing. If I had my way and I could build myself as an individual, I would have never chosen to be a fighter.
I think fighting is one of those things that
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either cursed with or you're not. Unfortunately I was born
with a mind that
is hard to occupy and I find everything boring. I find the cinema boring, I find clubbing boring, conversations, family dinners,
festivals, holidays, all the crap that everyone enjoys, bores the life out of me. The only thing that keeps me mildly entertained is something which is so dangerous that I'm scared.
I totally understand why people climb out Everest. I totally understand why people jump off to the buildings.
and that's exactly the same reason I get in the ring because without it I just live
numb and bored all of the time. I could win 20 grand at a casino table and still be bored. It's just me. So every single time I get into a fight I think why am I doing this?
What am I risking my life for? What if I get a broken
or fractured skull or whatever, but you know, I don't feel like I have a choice but to do it.
It's just who I am.
I'm scared but I'm ready
All right.
David Rudd, the world of Lisbon France.
He mixes it up, he does boxing, K1, Muay Thai, MMA, basically he's very versatile. He's built like a brick house as you would say in the UK. Possibly too much muscle.
So it's...
I think way slower than Andrew.
I know my upcoming opponent, I know quite a lot about him. I was with him on a reality TV show last year in Macedonia. He's a tough guy, he's a strong guy. At my level, everyone's tough, everyone's strong, everyone's game.
Everyone wants to fight.
you know you're not gonna find anyone at my level who doesn't really want to fight and doesn't hit hard, that's not the way the game is so yeah
He's got two arms and two legs, he can fight, I can fight.
I'm not too big a believer in individualistic regimes or plans. You know, I do press-ups, he does press-ups. You know, I do running, he does running. Everyone does the same kind of thing.
It comes down to the individual. It comes down to the brains of the individual and the attitude of the individual.
It comes down to who wants it more and it comes down to who lands the shot first. That's how it is. So I've trained hard. I'm sure he's trained hard.
But I'm ready to fight.
*Dramatic Music*
I'm going to go.
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How many of you guys are playing? Fifty sixers.
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We're here in Pancras International, just waiting for the train to go to Belgium. Haven't eaten in about two days and very, very nervous, so can't wait to get the weigh-in done, and then I can eat whatever I want.
And then tomorrow I'll try and turn these nerves into anger and it's fight time.
She's from Zymerich.
- Look, I heard this. - I'm sorry, I'm lying. - Man zero. - Sorry, man zero. - Man zero. - All right, thank you.
I'm starving, everything seems to take forever. I'm irritable, I'm annoyed, I wanna eat now.
It's been two days now, so standing around for the last 30 minutes, everyone's on the
The force feeding bag is full of goodies for him as soon as he went in.
He can stuff his face.
- African style.
Now I'm hungry.
Jules! Well he was supposed to be weighing in, but the driver took us to the hotel and said that the waiter ends in apparently 5-10 minutes. But I haven't seen the phone that hasn't weighed in yet and also the official, the guy who's running the show, just making the phone, just to find out whether or not they skipped the waiter. Or perhaps weigh in tomorrow or not. I think it doesn't really happen here overnight. Everything's up in the air at the moment, no one knows what's going on. We'll find out whether or not it's next 5 minutes after this.
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- The problems with the weigh-in yesterday. Weigh-ins are never straightforward. Because you're trying to cut so much weight,
I had to lose a stone and a half.
to make my fight weight
Um,
it's difficult because you don't want to cut too much because it's so hard as it is so you can weigh yourself on certain scales at home and be on weight and then when you get to their scales you're not on weight
So usually I like to weigh myself on the scales that I'll be being weighed on to check. And if I am over, I can go for a run or something and sweat some weight out.
This time
Wow.
there was traffic and the driver took us to the wrong place and we arrived late etc etc etc
So by the time I got to the weigh in, I had to just weigh in.
and I was a little bit over.
Um...
which is usually a massive problem, but luckily my opponent was a little bit over too.
by about a pound or a pound and a half. So they let us slide, but otherwise I would have
been in a lot of trouble so
Very fortunate. First time it's ever happened to me being overweight, but something because I couldn't check.
But yeah.
Done now.
Today we have the first Infusion live event. That means we have six fights broadcasted live all over the world.
and always won a world title.
and tonight we will have the 61 for women
and fusion have both female as male deficiencies.
and we are planning to have
10 events this year.
in 2013
It's unique. It's got uniqueness about it. He's an intelligent fighter.
What I've noticed about him is he can change the trajectory
That's our word to say for me.
Um...
He's a very intelligent, but he hits at strange angles that
most fighters don't see it. It's not the biggest punch, it's not the hardest to punch you.
but it's the most accurate. Yeah, it's very precise, slick, fast, good movement, confidence.
He's good for TV. He's very good for TV. Yeah, very good.
The interesting thing about Andrew Tate is that he is a good fighter, but he has the American nationality as well.
Most of the stand-up fighters from America do not have such a good level because most of them
go straight into MMA
And
Andrew likes to do the kickboxing style and he's pretty good at it and most of all he's
fight it towards.
Infusion like Tate as well, so we've got to pump him up and push him out. I like him as a product. This is a good platform for Andrew. I think he's the only person that really
has got near enough a show based around it.
Which it is?
So he's got a very good platform.
to launch himself into a stardom that we believe he's capable of.
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Yeah. Yeah.
And then it
- Now that I've weighed in, I feel a lot physically better. But I'm a lot closer to the fight, so mentally I'm a lot more nervous.
obviously there's a lot to think about the problem is with this sport it's not
It's not a team game, you can't rely on anyone else if you're having a bad day and
If you lose, you don't just lose, you lose and go to hospitals. So, you know, it's very nerve-wracking. I think a lot of people underestimate exactly how scary this sport is.
and the better you get it the more confidence people have so you say things like I'm fighting, I'm fighting someone really good and they go don't worry
Tell you the best, you'll smash it.
And it's like, yeah, it's easy for you to say,
and thanks for the confidence but
I much appreciate when people are worried and concerned because the better you get, the better are the people you fight.
and the person I'm fighting has trained as hard as he could for the last 12 weeks and dedicated his life to beating me just like I have
dedicated mind to beating him and you know it's gonna be a hard night, it's gonna be a very hard night
And even if I make it look easy,
Trust me, it wasn't. And I'm really nervous about it. I'm really intimidated.
every fighter is different. Some fighters don't care, some fighters are angry, you know, and some fighters, it doesn't bother them, but we're all different and I'm
I'm a thinker as a person.
I'm quite an intelligent individual and unfortunately that means that I'm not ignorant enough to think I'm the best thing in the world. I know I'm fallible.
I'm a human being and
I can break like everyone else, so...
Anybody who thinks fighters aren't nervous before they go into the ring and that they're all sort of
They're all uh...
you know, Iron Man, so to speak. They're wrong. Fighters get really nervous, get scared. Obviously bad things can happen. Me and Andrew have both been at shows where people have died in the ring and been killed.
Yeah, everyone has nerves, but the moment you get into the ring and the bell goes, it's like something else takes over. All the nerves disappear out the window and then it's fight time. And especially after the first one or two minutes, once you work out how the guy fights, you're confident in yourself if you're going to win or if it's going to be a hard day. So, yeah, the nerves disappear very quickly.
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Yeah, just getting more nervous. It's the same like if you have warriors before they go to war. You know, they start putting all the paint on and all the preparation, sharpening the tools or cleaning the weapons and so on and so on. Or tool pit bulls, you know. Just before they get released, you can see them in lions, whatever, just keep going left to right, left to right. Because they can sense it and then once you let them go, that's it. They do what they do. That's what they're trained for.
*Slow's voice*
* - I'm going to pull it. - Watch my. - Pull it up. - Down, down, down. - Down, down. - Down, down. - Down, down. - Down, down. - Down, down. - Down, down, down. - Down, down. - I can do that. - You can do that. - Just go right in. - Just go right in.
- Bow. - Down, down, down, down.
It's not going to touch you. That is not going to touch you. Way too slow.
- Except to be the cross, you can't move. You don't move from here up and pull up.
- The Russian pick is hard. - No, that was an answer. - It's tall, and you hit hard. - More range. - You hit it, you're gonna get it. - So, what's that Russian dog that you haven't got?
What's he got to be doing? Nothing.
- We were doing the gyps.
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I'm so close. One, two.
- The best.
Show everyone why you're the best! You're gonna knock this man out! You're gonna pull this to sleep! You've got nothing off you! Nothing off you!
...kilogram division and will be contested over three three-minute rounds. Introducing to Fastly, fighting out of the blue corner. He brings an excellent record of 30 fights, 28 wins, 22 of those wins coming by way of BKO. With only two losses, he is representing the USA.
And opposing him, fighting out of the red corner, he brings a red flag.
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- Come on, move it, Jack! - Get a party!
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Fight!
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Thank you.
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Your judges have reached a unanimous decision.
Your winner
Fighting out of the blue corner from the USA, Andrew, the King Cobra, Tate!
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The thing is, it was good the guy would just march and do enough fun. He was making it very awkward. He was kind of, when he hit it, he ducked.
I'm trying to start a tactic. It can work for times, but I'm not kidding. Listen, fuck me. I hate your respect. I'm not fucking sure.
You have a lot of things in the university.
"I don't want to go to the ground."
- Thank you.
- That's a lot of good.
you can't stop.
Hold on there.
three.
I just need to do your family.
with the
I won but I thought shit I could fight much better than that. I know I can. I wasn't at my best at all.
Um...
you know
I'm very self-critical.
I'm very hard on myself.
I'm not happy about that. It feels like a loss to me, to be honest.
I just lost...
Oh well.
So long, I guess.
Thank you.
what it is.
Who ever knows liked it?
What about us?
Why I think I fight. Do I enjoy it? No. Do I enjoy training? No. Do I enjoy cutting weight? No.
Am I nervous? Yes. Do I think to myself, what am I doing? Yes.
Completely.
Unfortunately,
It's one of those things you're either born with or you're not.
and
The only way I can explain it
to try and make it make any sense.
is that if I'm not doing something
which is either extremely difficult or extremely stressful
I'm in a perpetual state.
of crippling boredom.
I can't explain it. I see other people live their lives and they're like, "Oh, I can't wait for the weekend because I want to watch this movie."
I think, who cares about a movie?
you're looking forward to the weekend for a movie
Looking forward to the weekend to get drunk. Like these things to me are so mundane.
They mean nothing.
And if I don't fight, if I'm not in a situation where I'm stressed or worried or concerned,
I'm just...
perpetually bored.
and boredom's crippling.
If you're an intelligent person and you've got
a good brain on your shoulders. You can't just sit there bored.
you know?
So most smart people take the academic route to avoid boredom. They learn, learn, learn, learn, learn, but that's never really interested me either.
although I've always been an intelligent guy and I've always done well academically,
It never really interested me.
And then I see people climb out Everest or jump off buildings or do base jumping or
the guy who jumped from space, people think, what's he doing? He's crazy. I understand.
Because some people can't live normal lives. Some people cannot...
just function, 9 to 5 office job, get drunk at the weekends.
That is not for some individuals and it's not for me.
So I have to find something which keeps me physically tired enough
to stop me going AWOL.
and mentally tired enough and I've chosen fighting because without this when I'm not in training
I wake up every day and think,
"Okay, what am I gonna do today? It's 9am on a Tuesday, I'm bored, everyone's at work, I'm bored, and I'll end up doing something crazy, I'll end up drunk."
or on the Eurostar,
Or, you know, it's just a random lifestyle because I'm constantly looking for never-ending entertainment and it doesn't exist.
I think the only thing that could stop me fighting is if I had enough money to constantly entertain myself.
Unless I'm a billionaire, I need something that keeps me focused and keeps me occupied in life.
With fighting, I have to train twice a day, and I have to train hard, and the stress it brings
in every aspect.
can replace fun
and my mind is occupied, it occupies me. It's the only way I can try and explain it, it occupies me.
and I could never stop doing this even if I lost 100 fights.
because I'm not built to live a normal existence I can't do it I couldn't just have a kid
with some girl and stay at home
and work a little bit and relax. I've never relaxed in my entire life. I don't know what relaxing is. It's just not me.