Andrew Tate a Chess Champion?

Having seen a bunch of videos with him in the past week, I feel like even I could kick his

Just like everyone was their kindergarten chess champion.

But in reality there is only 1 chess world champion... in reality Andrew Tate was never the actual kickboxing world champion.

A lot of men don't need to pay $$$ to buff guys to tell them they are Alpha or "Top G" (or whatever they enjoy being called by those buff men) in order to feel ok with themselves.

Headlock?

In a chess game, Carlsen would walk all over Tate. It's not even worth discussing.

Also, I'm pretty sure this guy is the "Top G": Matteo Messina Denaro, head of the Sicilian Mafia. From what I've read, he's been eluding police for decades now, has an extensive history of murdering his rivals, and has 20 Mafia families all bowing down to him ...

Wow, serving time for the murder of anti-mafia prosecutors... now that's a mob boss.

By the way, "Top G" is something I can't imagine anyone over the age of 14 calling themselves.

Ok maybe real life street thugs call themselves this, but they're mentally under the age of 14 so that's reasonable.

Yes, definitely a mob boss, by all definitions. And it's even crazier, from what I've read: he has been sentenced to many things (including life in prison), but is yet to be captured.

Authorities keep wrangling in members of his inner circle, but Denaro himself remains elusive.

"I'm gangsta, yo!"

Andrew Tate reminds me of a modern Neil Strauss (author of "The Game"). Strauss was popular over a decade ago, when the "PUA" (pickup artist) trend was raging.

It's kind of the same thing, but different: men selling advice to younger men about how to be confident and ways to attract women. This is when I first started hearing about guys trying to be "alpha males" and not "beta males", and all that wonderful nonsense.

Oh, looks like my 5 second google wasn't enough for me to learn the basics

So he's still uncaptured, ok.

Oh yeah, whatever happened to the PUA stuff. I guess it rebranded as whatever Tate is.

Glad I never had to worry about that stuff

"Rebranded" is the perfect way to describe it. Same, but different.

Someone on these forums mentioned that Tate recommended waiting, when responding to a text message from a woman, to shift the "power" dynamic. Sounds like the exact same PUA stuff from a decade ago.

Absolutely speechless.

Yeah, that wrong though. Pretty sure there is, and were, many different organisation in kickboxing just like in boxing which isn't even counting on different rules just for pure kickboxing. Most important questions are: was that organisation at the time the hight of kickboxer, did he win against be names and were they in their prime at the time. 

I heard about buakaw, schilt, crocop, hoost, hug even though I just watched some k1 reruns on eurosport and read black belt magazine. Tate on the other hand...

So the majority here seems to be anti Tate. Can someone give me some quotes that actually show what's wrong with him? Preferably with source-links, cause there is a lot of misinformation on these forums.

What does "what's wrong with him?" mean? Putting aside the things he's been arrested for, he's scamming people and talking a lot of bs. A priori there's nothing wrong with talking bs, but one can call it out. I'm reluctant to take an example video and go into details of why it's bs, because it somehow feels like taking an act, like Ali G, at face value. But anyway, here we go. I won't post links, you can find everything.

He begins by asking the rhetorical question if one would trust a female pilot in case of an emergency. Whatever point he's trying to make, pilots have been trained to follow procedures because they are in a highly unnatural environment, so whatever natural statistical differences  there may or may not be don't really matter. If anything, accidents like Aeroflot 821 were caused by typical male overconfidence. Next he talks about pimping, why the man should get a share of the income, and justifies it with the Bible and Quran. Next, he uses the variability hypothesis in intelligence (itself not an established fact) to argue why men are better at chess than women, ignoring all the different personality traits that go into this as well as other factors, and so on. All while dangling a cigar and speaking in an annoying, over-assertive way that seems to deeply impress some boys. And all the while I'm wondering what his point is. 

From the point of view that it's his right to talk bs it's nothing wrong. One can also play the game of picking out things he says that do make sense and say "look, he's being hated for saying xxx" when there's nothing wrong with that (unfortunately, he does often get critisized for the wrong reasons). For example, there obviously are differences between men and women, that in itself shouldn't be controversial.

I do think there's something wrong with the effect he's having, and in encouraging a certain part of the population to feel superior to another one. He'd be quick to point out that it's not about being superior, just different, in the same way that racists used to justify segregation.

Here are some fun videos. There are others from The Young Turks and David Pakman. Do some searching and find out what an unimpressive dingbat this clown is.

Poor Sport.

SumRandomDude1 loves crazy house as well as OJC

He's the goober who railed against people who waste their lives working to spend money on consumer goods and then shows how many expensive cars he has so he can impress everyone with what a rebel he is.

Then he gets totally owned by Greta Thunberg.