Jake’ The Hammer’ Kannoo is an under 16 fighter from Portsmouth. One of the top fighters at his club he is known to have serious potential and some say he could go all the way. We get him to answer a few questions:

Jake 'The Hammer' Kannoo

Q1) What boxing club are you a member of?

A1) My boxing club is ‘Average Joes’ boxing gym and I train under the tuition of Andy Foreman but I have trained under Mark Adams bamma MMA champion and Brian Adams of South Coast Submissions.

Q2) What martial arts do you train in?

A2) At the moment I’m training in just boxing as im intersted in MMA and Thai boxing but being of a young age it gets hard to be matched.

Q3) What is your current fight record?

A3) At the moment its 3 fights 2 wins at 3 different weights, I’ve won at junior welterweight I lost at light weight and won at featherweight for which im challenging for the Southern Area title soon.

Q4) Who are your idols?

A4) My idols Ali off course Mayweather and Tyson for boxing.

Q5) Would you throw a fight for a million pounds?

Jake 'The Hammer' Kannoo

A5) Hard to answer depends how much was at stake as I may wanna fight the guy so much that the money wouldn’t be an issue but hey a million pound is a lot off money.

Q6) What do you see yourself doing in the future?

A6) The future well I definately want to win the Southern Areas title that will push me to British titles and eventually international titles I’m sure that I will do some sort of contact sport I have alot off support at my age from friends,family and sposors.

Jake wears two t-shirts

Top photo - ‘Recognize The Truth’ by Can Two.

Bottom right - ‘Graff 4 Life’ by Can Two.