Blissfully unaware of the impact it would have on his life, Delicious Orie spent Saturday April 9, 2016 like any other teenager.
Perhaps he was working his make-ends-meet job at McDonald's. He might have been out with friends or studying hard at Aston University where he took a degree in Economics and Management. One thing he wasn't doing was watching Anthony Joshua's world heavyweight champion coronation against Charles Martin.
Orie didn't even know who Joshua was. His interest in boxing was nil. He knew of two names: Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.
But on Sunday April 10, 2016, Orie flicked on the television and before him shone AJ's adonis-like figure, left hand aloft, standing on the ropes, having just dismantled Martin in two rounds. Heavyweight supremacy; 20,000 people in attendance to watch Britain's next big star capture the IBF title.
"I didn't actually watch the fight," Orie tells The Ring. "I didn't know the fight existed. I didn't even know who Anthony Joshua was.
"I didn't know there was a world title fight. I had no idea. And Sky News were just saying, you know AJ won last night, world champion, and I'm just seeing him raise his hand with the belt, and I'm like, this guy just really appealed to me.
"I did a little bit more digging into his background and how he composed himself and how he started. That's when it was like, okay, let's go do this."
At the age of 18, Orie's journey had begun just like that. He now knew what he wanted to do with his life and nothing was going to get in his way, not even his exams.
"It was hard," Orie added. "There were some times where [boxing and studying] was the most stressful thing. It was really hard. I had to isolate myself from family, friends, and really focus on either the exams or the training.
"Sometimes, the tournaments and the coursework and exams would overlap with each other. That was difficult.
"For the first three months when I started boxing, I was strictly learning how to throw a jab, because I couldn't throw a jab. I'd never fought in my life before. I never had any fights at school, none of my family do it, none of my friends do it.
"I didn't know what amateur boxing was. I didn't know what professional boxing was. I couldn't skip. So I was learning how to skip. That was around about three months, and after about the fourth or fifth month, I started sparring."
Fast forward nearly nine years and three amateur gold medals (2019 English Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games, 2023 European Championships) later and Orie is readying to begin his pro career with Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions. He'll be trained by Steel City Gym's Grant Smith in Sheffield and managed by STN Sports.
Last summer at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Orie was controversially and unceremoniously dumped out in the first round, losing 3:2 to Armenia's Davit Chaloyan.
Orie has toyed with the idea of turning pro for months, but he was also offered an opportunity to become a professional wrestler with the WWE.
Orie said: "After the games, I was completely distraught. I thought my world was crumbling. I thought I'd let everybody down and I'm not going to amount to anything, kind of thing.
"So, when I got that interest for the WWE, it was like, OK, I've still got something that I could do. I'm familiar with the WWE and I've watched it since I was a kid, so it was something that I definitely would go down to. I went down to Florida to see what it's all about.
"But, you know, over the weeks, over the months of thinking about it, I was thinking, nah, what's really going to fulfil me as a human being is seeing how far I can go as a professional boxer."
Orie is completely at ease and talks assuredly about his life and boxing goals. Taking care of his parents is paramount. They were baffled when their son first told them he wanted to pursue boxing. They'd raised a quiet, unassuming young boy who had never been in any confrontation in his entire life.
Orie's mother is Russian, while his dad is Nigerian. After Orie's birth in Moscow, the family upped and moved to his mother's hometown of Voronezh in Southwestern Russia
Though he lived there only until the age of seven, Orie remembers the harsh conditions and the innate feeling that opportunities to make something of himself would be hard to come by.
"It's still like a town, but it's quite a run-down town, let's say," Orie explains. "Yeah, from what I remember, it wasn't the most amazing childhood, I would say. It was sort of filled with hardship and struggles. But I guess it's made me who I am today.
"You got this sense that you felt like you couldn't...there were no opportunities. Even as a child, I always felt like it was very limited, the things that we had access to.
"When we moved to London I remember when I was in year four [third grade], I remember being in class and thinking, there's like a Chinese kid, a black kid, and it's all like a mixture of children.
"It wasn't just me, white, mixed race. That completely caught me off guard. Another thing that really caught me off guard over the years was how available things were. We were able to go to the shops and afford more things, and I was able to have more food.
"I was also amazed by the fact that there were extracurricular clubs, basketball clubs, extra maths class and English and stuff like that. I just took complete advantage of it all as a seven-year-old."
Orie is already a success story, but his life in the spotlight is about to expand tenfold, and with that comes pressure. He's already been asked dozens of questions about a future fight against Moses Itauma, who he has spared before.
"That fight could sell out Wembley one day," he told other reporters.
Ultimately, his goal is to be world champion, like many hopefuls who turn over from successful amateur careers.
But first on his to-do list is to inspire, just like Joshua did to him in 2016.
"The number one thing is to feel like I have changed as many people's lives as I possibly could," he says.
"I want to be the one giving them that inspiration and that drive to achieve whatever it is they want, that'd be special."