On 11 March 2026, the rematch clause in Andrew Tate's contract with Misfits Boxing quietly expired. No press release. No PPV announcement. No callout post. The clause that was supposed to give Tate a chance to settle the score with Chase DeMoor lapsed without either side reaching for it.
Five months on from Dubai, the second night isn't on the calendar. It isn't coming.
Here is where the story actually sits.
The fight, in clean numbers
Misfits Mania: The Fight Before Christmas. Misfits Boxing card 23. 20 December 2025, Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, streamed on Rumble Premium. Tate walked in as King Cobra. DeMoor walked in as Mr. Belt to Ass. Six rounds, MFB heavyweight title on the line, and the better cardio took it.
The official scorecards were 57-57, 58-56, 58-56. Majority decision DeMoor. He kept the belt.
The round-by-round told the story cleaner than the totals did. Tate took rounds one and two on every card. DeMoor took rounds three through six on every card. An uppercut in round three rocked Tate. An uppercut in round five opened him up. By the back half of the fight, the gas was gone.
The 48 hours after
The day after the fight, Tate posted what looked like a closed file.
"99.9 per cent of 40 year old men with 700 million dollars sit around with whores. I could have done the same and talked shit on the Internet and took no risks and just lived easy. In my heart I knew I'm too old. I knew I'd been out too long. That's why I had to do it. To face fear."
"I lost fair and square. Chase is a true champion. A warrior. I'm proud of him."
Forty-eight hours later, on a Rumble livestream, the file reopened.
"I got tired after the second round. In the first and second round, he couldn't touch me. If I didn't get tired, I would've won."
The two statements moved through the discourse on different days, in different rooms, doing different work. One was the kind of post that ages well. The other one didn't.
What the rematch clause was, and what it wasn't
Tate's contract for the fight included a rematch clause. Standard for crossover boxing matches at this level. Title fights with a celebrity attached almost always carry one. The promoter wants the option to run it back if the first night does numbers. The losing camp wants the right to a second fight without renegotiating from a deficit.
By 11 March 2026, the calendar emptied without either party invoking it.
The pattern is recognisable. When someone in a clause window is going to use it, you hear about it. Camps tease it. Promoters position it. Outlets get told. There was none of that this time. The window opened. The window closed. The fight didn't get made.
Where DeMoor went next
DeMoor moved on with the kind of momentum that comes with a kept belt. Tommy Fury talks surfaced almost immediately after the clause window closed. Whether that fight gets made or not is a separate question, but the direction is clear. DeMoor's calendar is forward-facing. From his side, the Tate file is shut.
He had put the work in to get the belt. The belt stayed on the wall. The next chapter is whichever name moves the most pay-per-views, and Tommy Fury is the obvious answer.
Boxing media weighed in fast. Ariel Helwani called it the biggest fraud check of the year. Most of the wider response across the combat-sports beat was less interested in the celebrity name on the other side and more interested in DeMoor's cardio and pressure holding through six rounds. The win read in the boxing community as a real one. He had done what he was supposed to do, in the rounds he was supposed to do it.
Where Tate sits, five months on
On Tate's side, the silence around the rematch is its own statement. No callout. No "let's run it back." No social-media pressure for a second night. Through Q1 2026, his content stayed on commentary, livestreams, the broader empire. The boxing chapter has neither been closed in public nor reopened.
That doesn't have to mean anything specific. Fighters move on for any number of reasons. Schedule. Legal. Business. Personal. What it does mean is that the Misfits 23 result, in Tate's public timeline, is sitting exactly where he put it on the night. I lost fair and square.
The cobra didn't strike twice
King Cobra and Mr. Belt to Ass walked into Dubai with names that told you what each fighter was bringing. The cobra brought the menace. Mr. Belt to Ass brought the trolling and the cardio. The cardio held. The cobra didn't strike a second time. That is where it sits at five months out.
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