Tate Speech - Andrew Tate - Tate on Fighting
Aired: 2022-07-02
Duration: 05:11


=== Why Fighting Isn't Just About Technique (05:08) ===

[00:00:03]  A lot of people ask me fighting questions.
[00:00:05]  And fair enough, I don't fight anymore.
[00:00:07]  I did retire from fight sports very young.
[00:00:08]  I'm 31 years of age.
[00:00:11]  I started kickboxing when I was 17.
[00:00:12]  I was world champion at 23.
[00:00:14]  I became four times world champion.
[00:00:16]  I retired from fighting at 28.
[00:00:18]  I then came back to the ring and I got a really bad poke in the eye, which is a very annoying way to end a career at the age of 30.
[00:00:29]  So it should've been no contest.
[00:00:30]  They're saying I lost.
[00:00:31]  Whatever, whatever.
[00:00:32]  And I'm still considering fighting again.
[00:00:34]  So people ask me a lot of fight questions.
[00:00:35]  I was an exceptionally good fighter.
[00:00:37]  ♪♪ Good shot there from Tate!
[00:00:52]  Fighting is a very difficult thing to learn because you have to reprogram your basic instincts.
[00:00:57]  The human instinct to how to fight is incorrect.
[00:01:00]  You lift your head up and you swing with your hands down to get power, and everything you do instinctually is completely wrong.
[00:01:06]  So it's very difficult to reprogram your instincts on something, especially in fighting, because fighting happens very quickly.
[00:01:11]  It's very savage.
[00:01:12]  It's very fast.
[00:01:13]  But when people do say to me, how do I learn to fight?
[00:01:16]  I say, well, a few things.
[00:01:19]  One, you don't just learn to fight.
[00:01:20]  It's not like... I don't care.
[00:01:23]  It's not learning how to fucking flip a coin.
[00:01:25]  It's something you have to train constantly.
[00:01:27]  And the second you stop training, your reactions slow down X amount.
[00:01:30]  Secondly, to be able to fight effectively, you also have to be strong.
[00:01:32]  You also have to be fit.
[00:01:33]  There's a whole bunch of other things you have to do.
[00:01:35]  Getting strong and fit, fine.
[00:01:37]  To be a fighter, you have to get strong and fit, plus learn a bunch of shit.
[00:01:40]  So it's not easy.
[00:01:42]  But people often say, well, what martial arts should I learn?
[00:01:46]  Wanna learn to fight?
[00:01:48]  Be a boxer.
[00:01:49]  This is coming from a kickboxer.
[00:01:51]  I'm a kickboxer.
[00:01:52]  And even I know that as amazing as my kicks are, they're pretty much useless in most cases of the street.
[00:01:58]  I mean, in a club, I can't really kick.
[00:02:00]  If I have jeans on, I can't really kick.
[00:02:02]  If I slip on grass, it's a big, big mistake.
[00:02:05]  I probably wouldn't kick in a street fight.
[00:02:07]  It's happened one or two times to the groin.
[00:02:09]  But in general, I don't kick.
[00:02:11]  I use my hands and I win effectively.
[00:02:13]  Boxing is the best for this reason.
[00:02:15]  People always come at me with, what about wrestling or BJJ?
[00:02:18]  Newsflash, BJJ is fucking useless outside of the cage.
[00:02:23]  And when I say this, a whole bunch of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu players get triggered.
[00:02:27]  They start going, oh, you've never messed with a BJJ guy.
[00:02:30]  Actually, wrong.
[00:02:31]  If you look at my career, I've been in the cage six times.
[00:02:33]  I broke my hand in two of those fights, that's why I stopped cage fighting and continued with kickboxing.
[00:02:37]  I fought Luke Barna, who's in the UFC.
[00:02:39]  I've won by knockout many times in the cage.
[00:02:42]  So I understand Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and I fought against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu professionally.
[00:02:47]  But I'm telling you, for the street, for self-defense, do not waste your time with BJJ or wrestling.
[00:02:52]  And here's why.
[00:02:54]  The number one rule of the street is do not go to the ground.
[00:02:58]  You don't know if your opponent has a weapon, like a knife.
[00:03:01]  You don't know if he has a friend who's going to come along and kick you in the face.
[00:03:04]  You don't know if police are going to turn up.
[00:03:06]  You don't know if all of his friends are going to be running around the corner.
[00:03:09]  You need to be on your feet at all times, ready to run to preserve your life.
[00:03:14]  Rolling around on the floor with some guy is not a good idea.
[00:03:19]  For the reasons I've named, plus more.
[00:03:22]  Secondly, a lot of these BJJ moves are ineffective against the rules of the street.
[00:03:26]  Yeah, a triangle choke works in the cage, but it ain't gonna work if someone can bite the fucking balls off, and an armbar ain't gonna work if they're taking a chunk out of your fucking skin, and these other things aren't gonna work if they pick up a rock and smash you around the head with it.
[00:03:37]  You try and triangle choke a dude when he can pick you up and slam you on concrete, not an octagon.
[00:03:42]  When he body slams your head on concrete, you tell me how you're gonna get away with that triangle choke without taking damage yourself.
[00:03:47]  It's bullshit.
[00:03:48]  All of it's ineffective on the street.
[00:03:50]  And the most important thing, and this is the most crazy thing of it all, when's the last time you've ever seen a fair fight on the street?
[00:03:56]  Ever.
[00:03:57]  I've been in my fair share of street fights.
[00:03:59]  I live in Eastern Europe.
[00:03:59]  I live in a dangerous place.
[00:04:00]  I've been to 60 countries.
[00:04:02]  I'm telling you, I've never seen a fair fight.
[00:04:04]  Every time I was in a fight, I was against multiple opponents.
[00:04:07]  As a striker, as a combatant who can strike, I can deal with multiple opponents.
[00:04:11]  Let me tell you something.
[00:04:12]  You can get the best BJJ player in the world.
[00:04:15]  If he's fighting two guys, he's going to lose.
[00:04:18]  Because as soon as he tries to grab one up, the other guy is going to jump on his fucking face.
[00:04:21]  So who cares how good you are at fucking this kind of choke, that kind of choke.
[00:04:25]  You're going to get fucking grounded and pounded or head stomped and beaten up.
[00:04:29]  Rules of Street Fights.
[00:04:31]  Stay on your feet, use your hands, and be ready to go from attacking to running from your life at the drop of a hat.
[00:04:38]  This is the advice I give you.
[00:04:39]  You want to learn to fight in the street?
[00:04:41]  Box.
[00:04:42]  Do not fuck around with BJJ or wrestling because let me tell you something, it's a waste of fucking time.
[00:04:46]  Anyone who thinks I'm wrong, I'll challenge you to the following.
[00:04:50]  You and one of your friends come along and try and fight me.
[00:04:54]  And I'll just use what I know, and we'll see how the fight goes down.
[00:04:57]  I'm guaranteeing you, you're going to take some shots.
[00:04:59]  I might take some shots, I don't know who you are.
[00:05:01]  But either way, I'll be on my feet, I'll be moving, you're going to get hit in the face.
[00:05:05]  Any BJJ guy in the world, no matter how good you are, you come and fight me and my brother at the same time.