After labelling himself as an 'aggressive individual', and a man whose DNA has fighting in it, David Adeleye stops, briefly, to dwell on his life before boxing, and what may come after it.

"I wanted to be an architect when I was younger," he tells The Ring.

"I look at buildings and I'm intrigued about how they're made, who made it, who came up with the ideas. You've got to have some sort of adventurous mind to be an architect. I think I'm an adventurous person and a creative person."

Around 15 seconds later, midway through a question about his British heavyweight title opponent, Jeamie 'TKV' Tshikeva (8-1, 5 KOs), Adeleye (13-1, 12 KOs) interrupts, with a spiteful look on his face: "I'm knocking him out."

It's not the first time during our interview Adeleye switches from bright eyes and shiny white teeth to cold and menacing. It's as if impending doom awaits if his thoughts meander over Tshikeva, who he faces this weekend at Manchester's Co-Op Live Arena.

He smiles and laughs about the first time David Haye paid him for sparring as a teenager at Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club, refusing to budge on the sum he received. He also speaks glowingly of his time as a business management student at the University of Wolverhampton. "Easy," he says when asked about juggling studies and boxing.

His tone changes again, however. Adeleye's asked whether he thought back then that he'd be in this position now.

"Yeah, I knew," he adds. "It's not a 'think'. I knew.

"There are certain people in the way, and anyone in my way is getting run through. I'm there to kick the door down. So there's no remorse for nobody, no friendship in this.

"With age and wisdom, I try to calm down, but certain things bring it out of me. It's just me. Fighting's my thing."

Tshikeva, a man he's sparred countless times, is the fighter standing in his way this time. Fighting for the Lonsdale belt is special, particularly as a heavyweight. It was a smidge over a year ago that Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke fought to a brutal, bloody draw, which won British fight of the year honours, for the former's title. Adeleye and Tshikeva will hope to steal the show on a card headlined by Joe Joyce and Filip Hrgovic on Saturday night.

Adeleye doubles down on his self-proclaimed aggression tag. "No judges needed," he says. "That W's coming home with me and so is the British title. When I let these hands go, everyone knows about it. I'm an aggressive person. They're all going to know about it. Trust me."

It's hard not to trust him. Was he always like this?

He continues: "We all went through something growing up, right? I was well behaved. I mean, I'm not going to say that, actually. That's a lie. I was a decent behaved kid."

Adeleye flexes his biceps and shows off a tattoo which reads 'Portobello Road', close to where he grew up in West London.

"You'd fight about everything growing up, just kids being kids...you ever have a fight growing up?" He asks. "No", is the response.

"That's a good thing," he says. "You and I grew up on different sides of town. But no, me, obviously, look, growing up, you get into tussles, and you've got to know how to defend yourself and how to fend for yourself. It's just something I've always known. Everyone kind of lives the same sort of life."

Adeleye stresses the importance of boxing to his life. Although his dad never thought he'd stick with it for long, and he's had to force his mum to attend fights, it remains his 'passion' to this day. He won the junior and senior ABAs, had 'I don't even know how many' amateur fights and considers himself an early student of the game.

"This isn't something I just started the other day," he says. "Like fighters who join [late] because they see the glory. It wasn't about that for me, I do this because I love fighting.

"I'm ready for whatever, whenever and however, the fans are in for a treat. Everyone's going to see."

Back to staring at skyscrapers, and life after boxing.

"Boxing doesn't last for long," he says. "So, yeah, you need to do something for when you retire.

"I still kind of want to do [architecture], maybe. One of my teachers disheartened me by telling me how long the course was at university and it was a long process and whatnot.

"Maybe one day, you never know, man."