Chase DeMoor not only feels that Andrew Tate wasn’t “fraud checked,” Tate earned his stripes in the boxing ring.
DeMoor defeated the polarizing social media influencer in the main event of Misfits Mania in December via majority decision. Since the fight, many pundits have gone on record to say that Tate was, in fact, fraud checked in his loss to DeMoor after touting his kickboxing titles, with how he presented himself and his accolades, and more, only to go out and lose a clear-cut decision to a less-experienced
fighter.
Days after the win, DeMoor was asked if he exposed Tate at Misfits Mania.
“No, not at all,” DeMoor told MMA Fighting. “I think that if you look at my record, and you look at his record, like I fought very tough guys. I fought guys bigger than me, faster than me, more experienced than me before, and when I was going into that fight, I fully told myself there’s nothing that Andrew has that I haven’t seen before, or have worked on. And my style is unique to me, it works for me, and it doesn’t look the prettiest on paper, but it gets the job done.
“You’ll see a lot of people say like, ‘He’s always winning, he’s always getting the job done,‘ and the thing is, with Andrew in particular, he was very fit, he’s very strong. I think he came out a little bit too fast. I think if he would have come out a little bit slower and picked his shots better, it would have been a much closer fight.”
But Tate did begin the fight with a furious pace that he could not keep up with as the bout progressed. The longer the fight went, the more it favored DeMoor who made the proper adjustments to stay one step ahead of Tate.
Throughout the build to the event, both fighters showed significant confidence, but DeMoor believes that Tate may have been a little too cocky in his approach.
“I think he underestimated me going into the fight, which is why he kind of burned out,” DeMoor explained. “He was trying to get rid of me early. He wanted an early stoppage. He felt the pressure of people wanting him to get an early stoppage, and I think that he fully believed in this camp that he was going to knock me out.
“And I don’t want to say, you know, fraud check, here or there because I think that Andrew beats every person that I’ve also fought, and I think that Andrew’s thing is you’re not going to pick back up [after] a 10-year layoff, five-year lay off, whatever it was, within, you know, a three-month camp. Granted, in the middle of this camp, I didn’t even get to train because I was away filming a TV show. I think it’s a different fight if I walked in there and I’m my normal weight, and I have a proper camp, and I have all these things in my [favor]. I think he did what he could with what he had.
“And it’s just very jarring when I see Ariel Helwani and all these guys talking about he got fraud checked. He didn’t get fraud checked. He went in there and he fought a very tough and big opponent. If you put Gervonta Davis in there with me, if you put David Benavidez, you put any of these smaller guys in there, you put Conor McGregor in there, or Nate Diaz or any of these MMA guys, it’s not going to look pretty because one, they’re not traditional boxers, and two, I’m a lot bigger than most people think. I’m 6’5 1/2, 240 pounds normally. I’m a big guy. Tough.”
The bout was Tate’s first in over five years, while DeMoor had seven bouts on his record in 2025 alone. Since going winless in his first five boxing matches, DeMoor hasn’t tasted defeat — amassing a 10-0-1 record in the past two years.
The 29-year-old wants to continue facing tougher competition as he goes along, but he learned a lot about himself against an experienced competitor such as Tate, and says a lot surprised him in the bout.
“Yeah, I was, I was surprised with how quick he was,” DeMoor said. “I didn’t think that he, at that age, was going to be as fast as … I guess it’s not really that old, he just turned 39, [but] yeah he was quick. I will give him that, but I thought in my head I was like, ‘OK, well I got to adjust. I know I’m quicker, but he’s seeing my stuff come,’ which is where the uppercut came from.
“I was trying to throw it too, and you can hear my coach yelling like, ‘Throw it, throw it, throw.’ I was kind of trying to time it up. I was also very surprised with how much the weight cut actually affected me. A lot of people said like I handled it well, but when you get punched, and you don’t have that rehydration full on you, I feel like the punches hurt a little bit more than what they should have. And yeah, I was really surprised that he stayed up, even when I threw that nasty uppercut on him, and I was just packing him in, I was very surprised with the chin that he had on him because his face was split open, his eyes were closed.
“This is only a six-round fight. Imagine if this was a 10 or a 12-round fight, you know what I mean? And I was, I was very surprised with how well he handled the clinch. I knew going into that I was going to lean on him, and I was very surprised when I got to the scorecards and one of the judges scored it a draw. That was very interesting. I was like, here we go. But yeah,the thing with him is, I could definitely see why he was such a high level guy back in his day. I think that if he would have stayed with it, he would have been a lot better, but I think for his weight, for him coming up into heavyweight, and fighting two weight classes above what he normally fights, I think he did extremely well.”
