The brilliantly named James Dean Fury has signed a “long-term promotional agreement” with Boxxer, which will commence on August 8 when he makes his professional debut at Leeds' First Direct Arena.

Make no mistake, the 20-year-old looks and sounds like a Fury and has a similar way with words as his two-time world heavyweight champion relative. “I’m here to take over,” he tells The Ring. “I’m going to be the best that’s ever come out of Great Britain.”

His 37-year-old cousin Tyson (35-2-1, 24 KOs) is in the running for that title given his success over the years. He remains in hot pursuit of perhaps the biggest fight in the country’s history against Anthony Joshua, but he must get past 46-year-old Mariusz Wach in a strange non-TV bout in a Muay Thai stadium on Friday night first.

However, young James Dean had no intention of discussing his more feted relative when he sat down with The Ring. “I'm very happy for all my family,” he says when asked if he has seen much of Tyson over the years. “They're all doing the boxing and whatever else, but I'm just happy just to discuss myself if that's OK.

“This is about me and what I want to do with my career, because I don't want to live in nobody's shadow. I'm here to create my own legacy and do my own thing and be the best of what I can be.

“I'm happy what all my family's done, over the moon for every single one of them, but this is the James Dean Fury Show now.”

It is an entirely fair response to a question that will likely follow the 20-year-old super-middleweight around for the first few years of his career. But the youngster, who is trained by the highly respected Peter Fury, who is his grandad’s brother, is no stranger to the pressure that comes with his surname.

“I always knew there was going to be an expectation on me and many extra eyeballs out there,” he says. “But when it comes to pressure, I’m not really bothered about it.

“We’re all human and we’re all doing what we can do, and that’s where we’re at. But I don’t get my confidence from my surname. What makes me so confident and what makes me believe I can be the best is the training camps I’ve been doing since I was a little lad.

“We’ve been in Spain, we’ve been in Holland, we’ve been in Egypt. ... I’ve been all over the world and seen everything. So now I just can’t wait to put on them shorts, put on that robe, put them boots on and just show people what I can do.”

It is now seven years since Fury, a three-time national amateur champion, started to take the sport seriously, but he had to first earn the respect of his great uncle. “I was around 13 or 14 when I first got in the gym with him,” he says of Peter.

“He opened my eyes to everything of what this boxing game actually is and how hard it can be, and that's what brings me here today. I've been through the hard work, I've been through sacrifices and dedication. I went from just being a little kid who loved boxing to being a man who does it for his living and is willing to be the best.”

In his great uncle, Fury will be mentored by a man widely regarded as one of Britain’s best coaches. It was Peter who trained his nephew Tyson for his stunning victory over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, which gleaned the first world heavyweight titles of his career. However, the pair have not worked together since and, in his book "Behind The Mask," Tyson described the breakdown of their relationship as “heartbreaking.”

In his nephew’s absence, Fury has continued to train his son Hughie as well as Savannah Marshall and others. Whether James Dean can make a similar impact remains to be seen, but his dedication to that pursuit was tested from the outset.

“There was a stage where he tested my dedication,” Fury says. “He put me in a caravan and said, you go to the gym, you do this, do that, and see if you can stick to it. So far I have.

“I remember when he first took me on the pads and I thought the pressure's on. He just said, ‘No, wrong, wrong, again, wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm just thinking to myself, 'What do I do here?'

“I'm punching the pads, and he tells me to put my body in this position, do this, do that, punch like this, punch like that. But when he showed me all these things, he made it sound so simple.

“He made everything make perfect sense, and from there on I just improved, got better and gained more experience, grafting with him day-in and day-out, and that’s what brings me here today.”

On August 8 he will join a long list of Furys to have boxed professionally in Great Britain. From “Gypsy John” Fury, to his two-time world heavyweight champion son Tyson as well as Hughie, Tommy, Roman and even the lesser-spotted “Young King” Fury, who amassed a 6-1 record from his debut in June 2014 to his final fight 19 months later.

So far Tyson is the only one to win a world title, but James Dean Fury is adamant he will be next.

“Now that I've gone pro, this is my time and this is my show,” he adds. “I understand that great things come with time and nothing happens overnight. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

“Give me a few years, and I will pick up them world titles. I can assure you on that one. I want to conquer the super-middleweight division.

“I can't wait for when I actually achieve that and do it all, so we can come back to this interview, and we can release it for a second time, and it’ll blow up again, won't it?”