Andrew Tate tells YouTuber Adin Ross his hyped boxing match with Jake Paul probably won’t happen
On a recent livestream with the influencer Adin Ross, Andrew Tate said it’s unlikely the much-anticipated fight between him and influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul is going to happen.
“I don’t think me and Jake Paul are going to fight,” Tate told Ross in response to a question about the match. “There’s a lot of negotiations behind the scenes. It’s not a simple process.”
Paul previously teased a potential fight between the two in early November, posting a video on Twitter with the caption “Negotiations” that showed the two men shirtless and staring menacingly at each other. The clip garnered over 11 million views and hundreds of comments.
The two were also captured days later in another Twitter video, uploaded by Paul’s micro-betting company Betr, that showed them locking eyes intensely at the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Deji Olatunji match in Dubai.
“You want the smoke, young man?” Tate could be heard asking Paul, who said he did. A date had not yet been set for the match.
“Between you and I, I actually quite like Jake,” Tate added during the podcast with Ross, a video of which has amassed nearly two million views in only a couple of days on Ross’ YouTube.
“It’s Logan who’s full of shit,” Tate said, referencing Jake’s older brother and fellow YouTuber-turned-boxer. Ross then asked Tate if he could call Logan live on air, but Tate said “the day me and Logan speak, it’s not gonna be for some Twitch stream.”
Tate, who rose to fame in the middle of 2022 on the back of multiple viral podcast clips and a legion of fans sharing his misogynistic self-help and wealth tips online, is one of most polarizing influencers of the year. He was previously banned from nearly every mainstream social media platform, although Twitter recently unsuspended his account after Elon Musk took over the company.
Jake previously said Tate, a former kickboxing professional, would be too scared to fight him or Logan and risk losing his “alpha male” appearance.
During the rest of the livestream, Tate and Ross bet on a game of chess, smoked cigars, and talked about having a success-oriented mentality, among other things.
Representatives for Tate and Paul did not respond to Insider’s requests for comment about the status of the match.
