In March, Moses Itauma kicked things off with a stunning knockout of Jermaine Franklin. Deontay Wilder then emerged victorious from a wild, sloppy but captivating 12-round brawl with his fellow veteran, Derek Chisora.

On Saturday night, Tyson Fury’s return to the sport attracted around 60,000 fans to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the potentially explosive shootout between WBO heavyweight champion, Fabio Wardley, and Daniel Dubois is less than a month away.

At the recent launch press conference for the upcoming fight between fan favourite, Dave Allen, and Filip Hrgovic, undefeated Leo Atang (5-0, 5 KOs), stood quietly taking in the scene.

This weekend, the 19-year-old will make his latest appearance on the undercard of the Ben Whittaker-Braian Suarez light heavyweight fight in Liverpool.

There has never been a better time to be a young, talented heavyweight but, so far, Atang’s day-to-day life has barely changed and talk of headlining stadiums and multi-million pound paydays is passing the 2024 World Boxing under-19 champion by.

Atang has more modest aims.

“A world title and a bowling alley in my house. That’ll do me,” Atang told The Ring with a laugh.

“I get asked for photos and stuff which is quite fun now, but other than that, it's a simple life.

“It's still normal. I still live a quiet life, do my training, go to bed and eat. That's all I do really.

“I wouldn't want to change anything because that would throw me off. I like to keep things normal, keep to my routine and do as normal.”

One of British boxing’s recent hot topics has been the importance of young fighters accumulating experience and rounds before stepping up in class.

Earlier this month, Itauma got five useful rounds under his belt before knocking out Franklin. Then, cruiserweight hope, Pat Brown, spent eight rounds breaking down the resilient Vasil Ducar.

Atang has only boxed seven professional rounds and has yet to go beyond the third. In February, he blew away Dan Garber in just over a minute. The commentators excitedly praised his hand speed and aggressiveness but when he sat down quietly and thought about his performance, Atang was far from happy.

“No, I was even more disappointed with this one because I definitely rushed it,” he said.

“Probably my worst performance yet, I'd say, but that's me being critical. My fastest stoppage yet but my worst performance, I think.”

Atang is currently on a different trajectory to the likes of Itauma and Brown and knows that he is still some way away from fighting people who will force him to bite down on his mouthpiece and resort to Plan B.

He knows exactly where he stands but is acutely aware that he is at the stage of his career where bad habits need to be ironed out before they take root.

“Obviously it's early but you don't want to be getting used to getting one, two rounders because then when you do find someone who is going to take everything you've got and you have to go 10 round or a 12 rounds or something, it's going to come as a shock to the system,” he said.

“You do the rounds in the gym and stuff but obviously fight night's a lot different.

“It's almost something I'm trying to work on as well [in the gym]. Settling into it, not rushing it, feinting them out for the first round, win the first round. You don't have to rush out and try to take someone's head off straight away.”