Upper Ferntree Gully muay thai boxer Jake Wolfe overcomes brain tumour

Muay thai boxer Jake Wolfe has been through the works. After having a brain tumour misdiagnosed as mental illness the 23-year-old has come out fighting.

Muaythai champ Jake Wolfe.

Nominee: Jake Wolfe

Suburb: Upper Ferntree Gully

Age: 23

Sport: Muay thai

Club: Colonel’s Muay Thai

Coach: David Dowdeswell

How old was the nominee they when they took up the sport? 14

Toughest challenge faced:

Being diagnosed and treated with heavy medication for three mental illnesses at 15, as both an inpatient and outpatient.

The nominee’s courage:

Winning the middleweight WAKO K1 Kick-boxing Victorian title in 2017

What has been the nominee’s biggest success?

Winning four amateurs titles, including two Golden Glove titles and two Victorian titles, amassing a 14 win, one loss record.

Describe their training routine:

Running six mornings a week, weight training five times a week and fight training fives times a week, on a vegetarian diet.

Describe the nominee’s passion for the sport:

His passion for his sport gave him the courage, inspiration and strength to overcome three surgery’s, including a nose reconstruction, a severed achilles reattachment, and a brain tumour removal surgery. Jake had brain surgery on May 15 and plans to be back in training within months.

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Give us three words that sums up the nominee:

Courageous, determined and humble.

Recent awards:

Due to being misdiagnosed with mental health issues when it was a brain tumour all along. The past 12 months was spent in and out of hospitals.

Do you have anything else you’d like to add?

Jake has shown such true sportsmanship in how he has had to deal with being misdiagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated heavily, to pushing through all the pain and agony of getting off all medications and dealing with a severed achilles to be diagnosed with a brain tumour which was the cause of all his pain and agony, to having it removed by Dr Charlie Teo on May 14.

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