Next off the production line is new Queensberry signing, Adam Olaniyan. The 19-year-old Irishman stands 6-foot-6 tall and brings a 2024 World Youth heavyweight gold medal to the table.

He trains alongside WBA featherweight champion, Nick Ball, at the Everton Red Triangle gym in Liverpool but will return home to Dublin to make his debut on March 14. Olaniyan's first punches as a professional will be televised by DAZN.

Olaniyan first walked into a gym as a seven-year-old but was a teenager when he realised what it would take to reach the top. Since then, his progress has been startling.

"My mom brought me and my brother to the gym," Olaniyan told Queensberry.

"My big brother had his first fight. We came back and my dad said, 'Oh, I was a boxer, too'. He'd never told us.

"We were like, "Alright, cool. I guess we're really doing this now" so, I took up the boxing then. I didn't really take it serious when I was seven and then when I turned 13, I got handled in sparring. Really hurt.

"I feel like if that didn’t happen to me, I wouldn't be here today. The day after that I started running every day and that year I won two national [titles] and a European gold medal. Ssince then, it's just been up.”

Traditionally, heavyweights have been guided slowly and deliberately through the world rankings as their handlers try to strike the fine balance between developing the fighter's skills and protecting their investment.

Itauma's rapid ascent risks rising the bar for everyone. Ranked at No. 7 by The Ring, he has been groomed as a future heavyweight champion from the very start of his career and already finds himself positioned at No. 1 with both the WBO and WBA.

Not every prospect needs to be moved at breakneck speed.

Daniel Dubois, for example, turned professional as a quietly spoken 19-year-old and was moved slowly but surely towards a title shot. The lessons he learned on his rise will ensure that the former IBF champion remains a major player on the heavyweight scene for years to come.

Olaniyan has time on his side. He can learn and progress at his own rate, safe in the knowledge that by the time he completes his apprenticeship, the likes of Itauma, Dubois will still be there waiting.

"I can appreciate how young they turned over and what they've been able to accomplish but I'm my own man and I'm not looking at their story. I'm not looking at their clock to set my time," Olaniyan said.

"I'm doing things at my own pace and when the time is right, we'll fight and hopefully - God willing - they are mega fights between me, Daniel, Moses, and we can just change heavyweight boxing for the better."