Half an hour’s stroll from the top public school he attended is a sweaty subterranean boxing gym, adjacent to the seafront lavatories, where Chris Eubank Jnr works on a sparring partner with impressive speed and power. His father followed this path because he had no option. Chris Jnr went this way because he wanted to.

Chris Eubank Snr is here as well, guiding, protecting, managing; and it would be easy to be drawn too far into his own story, because he tells it so well, and so entertainingly (“As world champion you become the Prime Minister of all tough men. And every man thinks he’s tough.”)

But despite the father’s love of philosophising, he is not looking to overshadow his son. Chris Jnr, 27, who fights Renold Quinlan for the International Boxing Organisation super-middleweight title at London Olympia on ITV Box Office on Feb 4, is no mere offshoot of his famous father, himself a world champion in a golden era for British boxing.

On Monday, Chris Jnr is expected to return to Brighton College, where he was educated, to talk to the pupils about his unconventional choice of profession. “There was nothing in my life that made me have to do this,” he says. “I was comfortable as a kid growing up. I had everything I needed. If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That’s where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.