After finishing a days work for Wandsworth Council - Aaron Lewis Prospere drives an hour and 45 minutes to a gym in Portsmouth.

The Sutton youngster, 21, does this up to three times a week.

"Sometimes you don't want to do it," the amateur boxer admitted to Sutton Guardian. "But once you get there and start training you will be alright."

Aaron is a two-time national boxing champion.

His father took him to a boxing club when he was 13. His story is not unique to the sports rich history of pugilists - too many school scraps.

He said: "My dad took me to channel my temperament. I was already better than the boys who were there a long time and had fought.

"I'm not sure why that was. When I was in my mum's belly, my parents went for a scan and the nurse said I was throwing punches and would be a boxer.

"It is a family joke. But it looks like it is going to happen."

Growing up, Aaron admired Roy Jones Jr, Mike Tyson and a boxer he says had the "best career you could possibly have", Floyd Mayweather.

From training for discipline to trading punches in a ring was an easy decision for his dad to accept. His mum proved more sceptical.

Aaron said: "My dad was all for it. My mum didn't say no, but she did not like the idea of it. As soon as she saw me fight she was satisfied that it was the career I wanted to choose.

"She now comes to all my fights. I don't know what I would do without that family support on fight night."

The Belmont boxer hopes to soon get called up to the GB squad and added that the Heart of Portsmouth Gym is the perfect place to develop.

He described his fighting style as composed as he picks his opponents a part slowly.

Aaron's recent success was being named best boxer in his weight class to represent the County of Hampshire. He beat Tim Stace at the Sussex v Hampshire ABA Inter Counties at a show in Butlins on November 30.

By the time he is 23, Aaron hopes to be punching his way to the top as a paid professional.