Joké Amechi is a super bantamweight professional boxer with a record of 3 wins (1 for KO) over three fights, training for his next bout scheduled for September 23rd, 2023.

Joké  is based in South-East London and train at the Double Jab Boxing Club and he also is an advocate of "Jab Don't Stab", an initiative addressing the growing problem of knife crime among young people in the UK. The London knife crime yearly rate has increased by nearly 30% since ten years ago, with nearly 13.000 stabbings last year and the highest effect on homicide rate.

Joké declared that "Boxing can be seen as a violent sport, but in no way, shape or form did it make me an angrier person. If anything, it made me more calm and that, through discipline, I don't need to react with anger all the time."

Starting from here, a dive in his perspective on fear and anxiety in professional boxing. Are you up for it?

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This interview was first recorded on Sunday the 13th of August, 2023.

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Mathias Alberton

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BPS trainee Sport Psychologist 

MSc in Applied Sport Psychology at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK.