Since he turned professional back in 2021, Brown had trained under former European junior welterweight champion Pat Barrett at the Collyhurst and Moston Gym in Manchester. However, he has made the difficult decision to move around a mile down the road where he will now train under Maylett at The Finest Gym.

The thriving gym was the base for former WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan and is currently home to unbeaten welterweight contender ack Rafferty. Former British and Commonwealth featherweight champion Zak Miller also trains there.

Brown (18-0, 7 KOs) himself is on the verge of fighting for major titles and whilst changing gyms is rarely easy, the 28-year-old from Stockport is positive that Maylett will be able to build on the solid foundations he established with Barrett.

“It's just that time for a change in my life, I think,” he told The Ring.

“A new gym, the group of lads around me are great and I couldn't ask for more. It's like if you surround yourself with the people who are there or even going there and just over time it happens. And I think I will get there.

“With the lads around me, they're all at a level and pushing on to big titles so it's only going to bring me on. I just want to say thank you to Pat as well because of everything he's done for me. I can't thank him enough.

“Even Steve said he's glad I've come from a good gym where the fundamentals are good. He's a good teacher of the techniques and it's not like starting again.”

When a fighter has been training in a particular way in a particular place for so long, changing can come as a shock to the system but if anybody has the ability to quickly adapt, it should be Brown.

He was a top level Thai boxer before deciding to make the move to boxing.

Moving to a new gym with a distinctly different style of working will take some getting used to but Brown is now an accomplished professional and having successfully transitioned to a new sport, adjusting to a new method of training should prove relatively straightforward.

“Yeah, it was like I started again,” he said of his crossover to boxing.

“I built my way up for nearly 10 years in Thai boxing to come to boxing and start from zero. Obviously, experience is experience, isn't it? I'd been in the gym and been in big fights and stuff but I started from scratch.

“When I was fighting journeymen, I was like, 'What's a journeyman?' In Thai boxing, this lad is 15, he's 15, he's had two fights, he's had two fights. Let's fight. In boxing, it doesn't really work like that. So, I've been patient and I've worked my way up.”

Five years after starting out as a middleweight, Brown has worked his way up towards the top of the British super middleweight rankings. In March he stopped Scotland’s Darren Johnstone (12-2, 3 KOs) in the third round of a British title eliminator.

The title is currently held by Troy Wiliamson, who is finalising preparations for his August 8 rematch with former champion Callum Simpson.

Brown has time to get used to life under Maylett before seeing what the title picture looks like towards the end of the year.

Whoever holds the belts and whichever route he eventually ends up taking, Brown is confident that he has what it takes to become a champion.

“Obviously, being under Steve, we've got to learn his ways and the way he wants me to fight and certain tactics and stuff so these six to eight months are just about adapting to his style and I'm more than ready to crack on for titles. I'm kind of excited for it now,” he said.

“If they can do it, why can't I? There's absolutely no reason at all why I can't do it. They are who they are but they're human end of the day and so am I. There's no reason I can't do exactly the same.

“It's there for the taking. Obviously, if I work hard and do what I'm supposed to do, there's no reason why I can't do it.”