BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: The interview between Andrew Tate and Tucker Carlson has garnered significant attention on Twitter, quickly becoming one of the most widely viewed interviews on the platform. This level of popularity indicates that the conversation struck a chord with many individuals, and even influential figures like Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, took notice. However, amid the widespread fascination with the interview, certain comments made by Tate about the London being the "stabbing capital" has sparked controversy and ignited heated discussions among viewers of the interview.

Tate has maintained a consistent presence on Rumble, a streaming platform, where he engages with his followers through motivational content, and updates them on his personal life. Additionally, his perspective on being targeted by "the Matrix" adds an intriguing and mysterious element to his content, captivating the interest of those who follow his streams.

'London is the stabbing capital'

During their discussion on the support Top G received from the UK during his arrest in Romania, Andrew Tate, who retains his UK citizenship, disclosed that he had not received significant support from his home country. He then proceeded to mention a saying, whose origin he was unsure of, that implied that a sick country adopts laws like how a dying man seeks medicine. According to Tate, the UK is currently experiencing a real-time failure evident in various metrics such as living standards and crime rates. He observed that the cost of living has escalated significantly, the education system has deteriorated, and London has gained a reputation as the world's capital for knife crimes, making it unsafe to venture outside one's home.

Tate criticized the UK's response to these issues, which he believed involved the implementation of increasingly numerous laws. However, he expressed the view that these laws were not intelligently targeting individuals who genuinely pose a threat to society, but rather were being used to suppress and attack individuals disliked by the government, including himself.

Tate wrote, "There's a saying that I heard, and I don't know who said it but he said that a sick country adopts laws like a dying man will try medicine, and I think that the UK is failing in real-time. If you look at it in any metric whether it's living standards, whether it's crime rate any, any metric you can measure the success of a country by — it's fallen off the cliff. It's becoming more and more expensive to live there; the education system's gone down ... London is the stabbing capital of the world. You're not safe to leave your house so their answer to this is just more and more and more laws and unfortunately, as they do that they're not even intelligent enough to actually attack the people who are doing genuinely bad to the world. They just make more and more authoritarian laws and they end up using them to attack the people that the government doesn't like, and I ended up being one of them."

Andrew Tate's childhood in the UK

According to Sidekick Boxing, Tate was born in Washington, DC, to Emory Tate and Eileen Tate on December 1, 1986. His early childhood was spent in Chicago and Goshen, but at the age of 4, he relocated to Luton, England, with his mother, following his parents' divorce. At a young age, Tate took on a job involving the physical labor of moving 80-pound boxes of frozen fish into a market, all while attending school during the day. On weekends, he dedicated his time to a market stall where he honed his knife skills. Growing up in Luton, where he was raised by a single mother, Tate and his family often faced teasing due to their American accents.

During his time in England, Tate commenced his kickboxing journey at a young age. His mother insisted on him taking self-defense classes, which not only influenced his career path but also nurtured the necessary skills for the sport. One fateful day, Tate crossed paths with Amir Subasic, the founder of Storm Gym in Luton, marking a significant turning point in his life. Amir, a highly skilled kickboxing instructor, took Tate under his wing, training the aspiring kickboxer and supporting him in achieving remarkable accomplishments in the field.