{"id":451581,"date":"2026-02-03T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451581\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:23:09","slug":"stephanie-mavromatis-boxing-is-my-release-its-my-outlet-its-my-sanity-if-you-like-fightpost-boxing-mma-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451581\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Mavromatis: \u201cBoxing is my release. It\u2019s my outlet. It\u2019s my sanity, if you like.\u201d \u2013 FightPost: Boxing & MMA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Mavromatis: \u201cBoxing is my release. It\u2019s my outlet. It\u2019s my sanity, if you like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defence is a large part of the life of Stephanie Mavromatis. By day, Mavromatis defends her clients in a courtroom. By night, she defends herself in a boxing ring. <\/p>\n

The 36-year-old is a defence solicitor. A day job that takes up so much of her time. But the London-born legal guru finds time to fight on the white-collar circuit. \u201cI have been working in law for about seven years now,\u201d Mavromatis told me over Zoom. \u201cI am on the defence side. The dark side, as they say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mavromatis has been in boxing for over a decade now. \u201cI started in boxing by doing one of those ultra-white-collar fights about ten years ago. I had given birth to two kids, both under two years of age. I had put on some weight. I had always loved boxing. Always loved watching boxing. They had brought out this new thing, train for eight weeks, get fit, and have a fight at the end of it. I thought, great, that will be fun. Go in the ring and have that experience. I did the eight weeks of training. It was much harder than I thought it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fun, and it wasn\u2019t,\u201d Mavromatis added. \u201cWhen you go into that type of training, and you go into it completely new to it, it is quite difficult to adjust to that kind of cardio. In hindsight, with what I know now, nobody should do that if they have no background in boxing. You don\u2019t learn enough, and I think it\u2019s quite dangerous putting people in there without the full experience of the basics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephanie Mavromatis won on her first-ever taste of ring action, and what was initially a one-and-done deal turned into something more. \u201cI won, and I said I would never do that again. I was so exhausted at the end of it, but two weeks later, I found myself back in a boxing ring, and I continued the training, and I am still going.\u201d<\/p>\n

After starting out on the white-collar circuit, for context, world champions like Fabio Wardley and Rhiannon Dixon began their careers away from the more accepted boxing world. Mavromatis did try her hand as an amateur, but the experience left a bitter taste.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am still on the white-collar circuit,\u201d Mavromatis relayed to me. \u201cI went into the amateurs and had one fight a few years ago. In my opinion, we got such a terrible decision, and it really put me off. I have been around the sport for a long time, and I know a lot of people, and I have heard the stories of favouritism. With the fact that I am an older female, and with my job, did I really want to put myself through all that training, and then get another poor decision, and not even get started? So after a lot of consideration, I just went back into the white-collar scene. At least I can then train, have a good fight, and I know the decisions will be fair. I know that might not be the case in every white-collar fight, but in my experience, I have had very fair decisions and good fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mavromatis is now eleven fights into her boxing life. \u201cIt\u2019s not a lot of fights, but with my career, and I took a break to have another child. I was having only one fight a year, because that\u2019s all I could manage with the workload and the kids. It\u2019s only in the last two years that I have ramped it, and I have now had four fights in a year. I plan to do the same this year. I have switched things around, and I am making boxing more of a priority. I have switched my job role to consultancy, so I am not in the office anymore, which gives me more freedom. The kids are now older, so that means it\u2019s much easier to navigate around them. I am able to do it a lot more full-time than I could before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Away from the sweat and grind of her boxing life, the day job is relentless and incredibly time-consuming. \u201cI can get calls throughout the night,\u201d Mavromatis says. \u201cAt two in the morning. Or late at night, if a client gets arrested, or if they want a chat, or if they are stressing about their case. A big part of my job is to be there and listen. It\u2019s not easy, but for me, it is sort of the yin to the yang. It kind of counteracts all the stress I pick up in my job. I can let it all out in the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFight camps are hard,\u201d Mavromatis added. \u201cI work all day, and then I have to train at night. I am then training at the weekends. But I love it so much, and I have made it work. I am lucky that I have a supportive family, and even though it is really tiring, it just works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having a stressful day job and a pressure-driven \u2018hobby\u2019 ticks many boxes for Mavromatis. \u201cBoxing is my release. It\u2019s my outlet. It\u2019s my sanity, if you like. You can tell by the job I do that I love high-pressure situations. I thrive off that. Boxing is exactly the same. It\u2019s going into the unknown and trying to figure something out. It\u2019s trying to figure out your opponent and what shots to throw. I am a person who has so many things going on at one time, and I just thrive off it. It\u2019s just my personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal for Stephanie Mavromatis is to go as far as she can in her chosen field in boxing. \u201cIt\u2019s just to win as many fights as I can,\u201d Mavromatis says. \u201cI am climbing up the white-collar league; I am around number ten in the UK, which isn\u2019t bad considering I haven\u2019t been as active as some of the other fighters. I also currently hold two belts in two weight divisions. I just want to keep fighting, and climbing up those rankings, and to get my name out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family ask me this all the time,\u201d she adds when I enquire when she will hang up the gloves. \u201cI say I will box until I can\u2019t box anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephanie Mavromatis will have fight number twelve next month. <\/p>\n

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