Kerri to enter the boxing ring...

In partnership with Maxim magazine, City Warriors are putting on the biggest Model Boxing Night in the history of Great Britain. 16 models, 6 months intensive training, 8 fights on the night, and one championship belt winner!

Kerri will be taking part this November 10th 2011, fighting in front of 3000 people at the Troxy in London. Fighting comes naturally to Kerri - with over 15 years martial arts experience under her belt, including gold medals at both the 2009 and 2010 European Kuk Sol Won tournaments for sparring, and winning silver in 2011 as well.

Kerri started her boxing training in London in June 2011 with City Warriors White Collar Boxing Federation instructor Gary Stasek. However due to her busy schedule running her Academy for models, and running her own pageants Kerri could not make it to London more than once a month to train with them. So Impact Fightwear and The Kickstop MMA stepped in to help, kindly sponsoring all of Kerri's boxing training in Norwich.

Kerri trains at The Norwich Kickstop MMA 3-4 times a week, with a variety of coaches teaching her boxing and kickboxing for around 3 hours at each session. On top of this Kerri's intense exercise programme also sees her training in Kuk Sol Won, running at least ten miles a week (often she runs double that!) and taking part in Fighters Fitness classes with the professional fighters at Kickstop!

Tickets are now on sale for Kerri's fight in November, starting at just £25 for the evening. Please either purchase your tickets from Kerri directly or buy them through the website (see link on the left) make sure you let us know you are coming to support Kerri so we can get her family, friends, and fans seated together.

With all that training, and professional fighters helping her out - we are hoping she is going to be hard to beat on the night!

Hey Kerri how is training going? Really well thank you, I am knackered 24/7 but loving it! I train 6 days a week and hate having rest days. The first month was really hard - I could not move my arms at all! My fitness has really improved now though and I've really noticed the difference it has made with my running. I love training in Norwich most days at Kickstop and really enjoy the London sessions with Gary too - sadly I can only get down that way every few weeks to train.

What makes you stand out in the competition? I think my confidence makes me stand out, although my boxing is no where near the level of my other martial arts I am used to sparring and confident in attacking. I have sparred (and won!) against men twice my age, height and size, I've been knocked out, and I know how hard men punch in tournaments! Fighting girls should be easier...!

Do you think your weight is going to be an issue as you are not the typical muscular boxer? I think my weight is an issue, my weight dropped to 8 stone from too much training recently and I can't afford to lose anymore. It means most girls my height have more weight than I do - and so have the ability to throw more of it behind their punches. It just means I have to train twice as hard as them to become better.

Why do you want to win this fight? I'll only go into something if I think I am going to win, as the attitude towards winning or losing is the most important part of preparing for a fight. I've already had massive press attention from this fight and been on news stand billboards - so the pressure is on to win! I also need to show my trainers that all of their hard work has not been for nothing!