Popular and controversial streamer Sneako set the influencer boxing scene ablaze Friday when he posted “private and confidential” terms from Misfits Boxing promoter Mams Taylor, extending an apparent fight offer to the internet personality for a fight against Andrew Tate in the US or UAE.
For Sneako’s participation in the bout, which would take place in Q3 of 2026 over five, three-minute rounds, he’d receive $1 million, plus backend, according to the text leak.
The post did not go down well with prominent figures in the influencer fighting space, including from presenter and commentator Wade Plemons, who said, “gotta keep these things private and operate like a professional,” as if treating Sneako like a pro fighter, when he’s a prominent broadcaster on Kick and X.
Tate, a former kickboxer and controversial podcaster himself, returned to the ring for the first time in years before Christmas, and lost a fight to the reality TV star Chase DeMoor in UAE, and is seemingly looking for an opponent to bounce-back against.
Only it won’t be Sneako. And not, perhaps, because he doesn’t want to fight. More so, it seems, because he regards the influencer boxing space to be in sharp decline.
“Tate wants to fight for $1 million and I posted what the offer was,” he said in a video on Saturday. “And all the Misfits fighter are so mad. ‘Sneaker this.’ And I look at their profile photos, and it’s a dude like this [raises fists]. ‘Sneako has no respect.’ Who the f*** is that guy? Real talk. Who are you?”
“Influencer boxing is not the same anymore because all the major influencer fights that would have been interesting, didn’t happen. It’s not the same aura.”
He continued: “If you’re whole thing is being an influencer boxer, then you’re in a trap because if you make that your identity, then what’s the appeal? There needs to be an influencer and a boxer. They’re just boxers on influencer cards.
“A lot of them are probably upset because the offer I got is higher than they got in that organization. I felt bad, I’d be upset, too. $5,000 to $20,000 … you have to do fight camp, pay your trainers, say you make $100,000.”
DeMoor, who toppled Tate, said he “didn’t get anything close to [$1 million]” in his fight but, rather, received a purse of $300,000 with no pay-per-view points, or backend, and a rematch at $450,000, no backend, which “they declined.”
Sneako said: “I saw Chase DeMoor responded to the tweet, and he was, like, ‘Man … I have no words’. I didn’t think about that. What did he make? From his reaction, it was probably less. Shout out to Chase. I met him before. Good guy. I’d be so pissed. Chase should make Sneako money.”
