Casey (5-0, 2 KOs) started fighting as a 7-year-old and never lost a senior amateur bout but felt like his style was perfectly suited to professional boxing.

He stands 6-foot-3 tall but despite his physical gifts and solid background he is still right at the start of his cruiserweight journey.

Casey has already boxed on Matchroom, Queensberry and Boxxer shows and, for the time being, he is taking everything in his stride in and out of the ring.

He is already trying to implement one change into his style.

“Just staying a lot more patient. Every fight, I’m learning off the back of it,” he told The Ring.

“Just sticking to my boxing brain instead of getting giddy is the biggest lesson I'm learning from each fight and, hopefully, now that I’m fighting six rounds I can just kind of slow the pace right down and not have to rush my work. I feel the longer the time I'm in there, I can just break these fighters down and get them out of there.”

Casey trains alongside heavyweight prospect, Leo Atang (7-0, 6 KOs), at the Legions Boxing Gym in York and the two are taking their formative steps in the sport together.

As a cruiserweight, Casey is under less pressure to make an immediate, dramatic impact on the sport than his good friend but there are a number of young, talented 200-pound fighters currently making their way through the British rankings and although he is still some time away from mixing with them, Casey will want his name to be mentioned alongside them.

He admits that he has already started to look ahead and imagine the type of fights he could end up being involved in.

“Definitely, definitely. The talent we've got coming through in the cruiserweight division, it's exciting times ahead,” he said.

“When you see the talent that's out there and the future fights that can be made for myself, it gets you giddy, definitely.”

One of those cruiserweight is Manchester’s Pat Brown. The 2024 Olympian is a few steps ahead of Casey in his development but he looks set to lead the division into a new era and should open up chances for younger fighters to follow in his wake.

“I’ve shared rounds with Pat,” Casey said. “I highly, highly rate Pat and fair play to him for doing what he’s doing. He's setting a path for the rest of us and he's such a humble guy as well. When I was chatting after the sparring, he’s always looking to give me pointers after the spars and whatnot I can do nothing but take my hat off to people like that.” The Gerbasi Corner honors longtime Ring Magazine and boxing contributor Tom Gerbasi, who passed away suddenly on Sept. 15, 2025. A 2024 Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism, Gerbasi took particular joy in telling the stories of up-and-coming and unheralded prospects in the sport.