Former kickboxing world champion and potential Jake Paul opponent Andrew Tate was once stabbed over a £2,500 drug debt just after winning his first title.
The American-born fighter lived the majority of his adult life in the UK, and was based in Luton where he trained under coach Amir Subasic at the Storm Gym, competing in kickboxing and MMA. And shortly after beating Jean Luc Benoit in a rematch for the ISKA world title, he found himself in a fight for his life after accruing a debt to a drug dealer.
Tate now says he struggles to find peace of mind over the incident, and says it affects the way he interacts with fans to this day after his attacker sneaked up on him with a knife. He managed to just about block the knife, instead taking a massive cut to his finger, but admits that he was inches from death in a scuffle which saw his finger "basically come off".
