The 32-year-old flyweight – who took gold at the 2021 Games in Tokyo - was thinking about giving up the sport when he was juggling training for GB Boxing while also working in a factory, but he’s pleased he didn’t.

He told Boxing News magazine: “I used to work night shifts, so I’d get in around 8.30pm and stay there until 6.30am the next day.

“Then I’d train at around 5pm, so I’d always be knackered for work.

“I remember saying to my coach [Frank O’Sullivan] I’d probably give boxing another year, and then leave.

“But I remember him telling me that I could go to the Olympics. I just thought he was a crazy old geezer, saying all of this because I was his fighter.

“But he was right, and now here I am.”

Galal based his fighting style around two-time Olympic champion Vasyl Lonachenko, and admitted he feels “indebted” to his idol because of his own success.

He said: “I remember starting boxing at around 17 or 18 years old and Lomachenko was the only fighter I used to watch.

“I’d seen him at the 2008 Olympics, where he won gold, and then again in 2012.

“So I was just constantly studying him.

“My brothers used to say to me, ‘You need to stop watching Lomachenko; it’s going to be hard for you to do what he does.’

“But I was like, ‘if I can do even half of what he does, then I’ll be happy – because he’s just exceptional.

“He was a huge inspiration for me. I’m nowhere near as good as him, but we’ve got that Olympic gold medal in common.

“If I’ve taken even a little bit of what he’s got, it’s helped me become the fighter I am now.

“So I’m indebted to Lomachenko; he made me love boxing that bit more.”