425. The Cohost

Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by U.S. Marshals in Miami on Saturday.

They were arrested outside the venue where Andrew was scheduled to cohost a bareknuckle boxing event. The bareknuckle boxing event occurred inside the venue. The arrest occurred outside it. Andrew did not make it in.

Simultaneously, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service announced a wave of new charges and a formal extradition request. The announcement was made in the United Kingdom while the arrest was happening in the United States. The two processes were synchronized in this way by coincidence or coordination, the details of which have not been made fully public.

(Bareknuckle boxing is a form of combat sport in which the participants fight without gloves. The primary organizing principle of the sport is that violence is the event. The venue was prepared for this. Andrew Tate, who was scheduled to cohost the violence, was instead the subject of a separate process involving U.S. Marshals immediately outside the entrance. This is a distinction that will follow the evening into history.)

Andrew Tate has previously stated that he moved to Romania partly because he believed it would protect him from certain legal proceedings in the West. He was arrested in Romania in 2022. He was arrested again in Romania in 2023. He was arrested outside a venue in Miami in 2026.

The bareknuckle boxing event, which was the occasion for his presence in Miami, proceeded.