From the moment he signed professional forms, Manchester’s Pat Brown has been touted as the man to give British boxing a much needed shot of no-nonsense excitement.

Last Friday night, the cruiserweight made his professional debut and was exactly as advertised.

The 2024 Olympian made an extremely business like entrance into a bear pit like atmosphere at Altrincham’s Planet Ice and got off to an assertive but sensible start against Argentina’s Federico Grandone.

By the midway point in the second round, he changed tack and began to spend more and more time in the pocket with the tough Argentine.

As well as being the superior technician, Brown had the faster, heavier hands but he probably ended up taking a few more shots than he would have liked on his way to a fourth round stoppage victory.

Although it would have been extremely easy and almost understandable for Brown to have been swept along by the raucous atmosphere his fans generated, the 25 year-old insists that the decision to hold his feet and exchange with Grandone was a conscious one.

“Well, it's only six rounds, and I started off slow because that's the way I fight anyway, but he actually brought it to me,” he told The Ring after the fight.

“I would have gone a hell of a lot slower if I could but sometimes you can't control it and you have to just go off your opponent a little bit so I just flicked the switch and got back in control. With him I had to let him know, because he would have just kept coming and coming.”

Brown was in some high pressure dressing rooms during his amateur career but the hours he spent preparing for his professional debut will have been unlike anything he has experienced before.

It was a busy night for his training team of Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis. Brown may have been this weekend’s headline attraction but Conner Tudsbury and Cameron Vuong both notched up wins on the show and all of the fighters from Moore’s gym were in attendance to show their support.

Brown will have been able to hear his supporters singing his name as he got his hands wrapped and it would have been easy for the expectation and anticipation to have crept down the corridors of the cold converted ice rink.

Brown heaped praise on his team for creating the type of atmosphere that ensured that as much pressure as possible remained at the door.

“When I was an amateur, you're on your own more,” he said. “You’ve got your earphones in and you're in your own little zone whereas as a pro, Jamie, Nige, the team, we're all a family. We’re not just a typical boxing gym where it's business.

“We go to family gatherings, we love each other daily. This isn't just your normal boxing team so when I'm with them, I feel like I've got a whole vehicle driving me through.”