EXCLUSIVEViddal Riley opens up on 'very difficult' しつけ, '取引，協定ing with loneliness after making hard sacrifices' and his 関係 with KSI before 株ing his opinion on Tottenham ahead of Mikael Lawal fight

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Viddal Riley will be stepping through the ropes at the O2 円形競技場 on Sunday night,?where he'll be basking in the glow of the lights and the gaze of the cameras, bringing to his childhood dream to life.?

But, it's not always been glitz and glam for the 26-year-old. He grew up in a 'difficult 環境',?lived under the watchful 注目する，もくろむ of his strict parents and thought about walking away from the sport 予定 to 財政上の 抑制s.?

Speaking ahead of his fight with Mikael Lawal on Sunday night, Riley told Mail Sport:?'Tottenham was a very difficult 環境 to grow up in but a very の近くに community.?There were a lot of strong personalities. People who are struggling, people who are desperate so it creates a 堅い 環境.?

'My mum and dad did a very good 職業 of 存在 those strict parents in that 環境 because it was so 平易な to be let off the leash. They were very good at 説, no you're not going to do what you want. You're going to do this.?

'When I got to my late teenage years, it got to a point where they can't 支配（する）／統制する you as much. So, I was getting in bits of trouble during that time. It made me realise why they were like that.?

Viddal Riley will be stepping through the ropes at the O2 円形競技場 on Sunday night, where he'll be basking in the glow of the lights and the gaze of the cameras, bringing to his dream to life?

Mail Sport sat 負かす／撃墜する with Riley at his gym to di scuss his childhood, career and goals

Riley had his 手渡すs wrapped for the first time at the age of six and his now a professional?

'When they were 存在 like that I thought it was unnecessary but when it stopped I was getting all sorts of trouble so I thought maybe they are 権利. So yeah, it was a really difficult 環境.'??

Riley's 早期に years in Tottenham laid the 創立／基礎 for his 旅行 into the world of ボクシング. He took up the sport at the age of four and began fighting at just six years old.?

However, it wasn't the love 事件／事情／状勢 he had 売春婦 ped for. Riley spoke about how the?早期に 圧力 and rigorous training 影を投げかけるd the joy of ボクシング, 原因（となる）ing him to burnout.?

He 設立する it hard to balance his social life and the 激しい かかわり合い ボクシング 需要・要求するs - 最終的に 落ちるing out of love with the sport and walking away from his dreams just over nine years ago.??

'I think I started too young. I think I started at an age when the rewards weren't life changing so as much as I was winning the 国家のs every year and getting selected to be part of the England team my life wasn't changing.?

'They are all very prestigious things that I look 支援する on with 広大な／多数の／重要な pride but at the time I was thinking, it's not changing anything for me. I could go and do something that I would see 即座の chance with.?

Riley is also known for his online presence having 1.2million 加入者s on YouTube alone

Riley took a break from ボクシング but returned after watching Lawrence Okolie at the Olympics

'I just got bored of 審理，公聴会 "this 始める，決めるs you up 井戸／弁護士席 for その上の 負かす／撃墜する the line". 明白に they were wise words that were coming from wise people but part of 存在 a kid is that instant gratification. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to feel all the 肩書を与えるs I had won.?

'So yeah, I just thought let me try something else. Let me do something else with my time. But, then when I realised I should get 支援する into it, was probably at the perfect time. Because when you had been a few years into 再開するing, that is when you do start to see those rewards. You do see a difference.'

He went on to 追加する: 'It's definitely the mental 味方する. 肉体的に, you're a kid. You're young, you don't have any 問題／発行するs, you could 飛行機で行く off a building if you 手配中の，お尋ね者 too and 回復する.?

'Mentally, it's the discipline and the 焦点（を合わせる） that is 要求するd when you are first exposed to so many distractions. I started at six years old, which is 明白に very young. But, you don't have any freedom as such.?

'You're more directed and told where you are going to be until you develop into your teenage years when you have your own friendship groups and they have 利益／興味s. You want to be a part of what they are doing and then whatever you have committed to become a nuisance.?

'I'm trying to think of a better word but I am just going to go with nuisance. It becomes a nuisance because you're thinking, I can't go here because I've got training, I can't do this because I've got to run. So, when the rewards aren't 満足させるing you, it's very hard to make those sacrifices.'

Riley is friends with YouTuber-turned-boxer KSI and trained his for his first ボクシング match

Riley joined KSI on a trip to Las Vegas and ended up 存在 調印するd by Mayweather 昇進／宣伝s

After 落ちるing walking away from the sport, Riley was 軍隊d to （問題を）取り上げる a 小売 職業. It certainly wasn't his passion but the 予期しない turn 供給するd him some life-long friends.?

'I went straight into working 十分な-time. My mum was like, 井戸／弁護士席, you better do something if you're not going to University and if you're not fully 焦点（を合わせる）d on ボクシング. So, I 選ぶd 小売. The easiest one to get into most of the time.?

'So I worked in 小売 and I worked in Night Tale in Oxford Street, Oxford Circus. I also worked at JD Sports. I had an 利益／興味 for trainers and sports so I thought if I am going to do any sort of 職業 I have to have at least some sort of care for it.?

'I ended up 会合 a lot of life long friends through those 職業s. It was a blessing, it lead me to so many things. I also got my PT 資格 during that time. I am always someone who is going to do something even if I am not ボクシング.

'I can't just be alive and sit still, I will always find something to do. But, ボクシング just keep dragging me 支援する in.'?

Riley returned to the （犯罪の）一味 after watching Lawrence Okolie compete in the 2016 オリンピック. The social マスコミ sensation 設立する Okolie's 業績／成果 underwhelming and said it was a catalyst for propelling him 支援する into the sport.?

Riley said he was surprised by how '静める' KSI was he first met the YouTuber (pictured together)

Riley is unbeaten in his professional career, having 首尾よく won all 10 of his 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s

'I remember I was working, I was doing 罰金 but I was watching the Olympics.??I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to check who was there in my 負わせる as I know that's the 負わせる I would be at if I was there.?

'When I watched Lawrence [Okolie] competing I thought, I definitely could have made the Olympics. Lawrence was a lot いっそう少なく experienced than me at the time. He got into the sport recently, he worked really hard and he was 奮起させるd by AJ at the 2012 Olympics then was at the 2016 Olympics.?

'I just thought, I know I am better than you. I have been doing it a lot longer than you, but with some 焦点（を合わせる） and dedication you are at the Olympics. So, if I put some hard work and dedication in, with the 長，率いる start I have on you, I must become something.?

'Surely I can do something. That's why I was 動機づけるd after that to get 支援する in the gym and not waste all those years of 投資 when he has shown what you can do in just four.?

'I was annoyed at myself because I believe if I had of stayed on it, it wouldn't have 許すd the avenue for him to go because I should have been there. I would have been working on 存在 there for a much longer period of time.?

'Yeah it was 失望させるing and I just thought, I am going to waste this if I don't go 支援する now. I think I went 支援する just at the 権利 time.'

にもかかわらず (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進むing his own career in ボクシング, Viddal Riley 伸び（る）d 普及した attention when he played a pivotal 役割 in training KSI for his 高度に publicised 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s against Joe Weller and Logan Paul.?

Riley knocked?Jone Volau 負かす／撃墜する during their fight?at the OVO 円形競技場 Wembley on June 11

Riley became the English cruiserweight 支持する／優勝者 after 安全な・保証するing a 全員一致の 決定／判定勝ち（する） 勝利，勝つ over Nathan Quarless

Speaking about how he first met KSI, Riley said: 'I trained a lot with KSI's friends. They all lived in the same place and word just spread around the building that they've got a PT and that they've seen this 改良 etc everyday.?

'But, that didn't 事柄 to him because he already had a PT. My 目的 （機の）カム when he was going to have a ボクシング match against Joe Weller. That was 発表するd at the end of 2017 to take place at the beginning of 2018.?

'So, only when he needed my knowledge for ボクシング was when he was like I will check out what you guys are 説. He just （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する to the gym and we did one 開会／開廷／会期, two 開会／開廷／会期s, three 開会／開廷／会期s and then the fight got 確認するd.?

'We just had a training （軍の）野営地，陣営 building up until February. He 成し遂げるd really 井戸／弁護士席 but 非，不，無 of us at the time realised what it would develop into. At that time there was no crossover world. It was a one off event. I didn't want to be a ボクシング coach. I just thought I was trying this guy for a one off event. I will give him everything until that point and then I will move on and go 支援する to doing what I was doing.'

Riley went on to 述べる what KSI was like behind の近くにd doors. He said: 'KSI was a lot calmer than I 推定する／予想するd. I think the personality he has on his channel is very different to the person you know 本人自身で.?

The 26-year-old (pictured at his gym above) enjoyed an 平易な night against?Quarless at York Hall in Bethnal Green and took one step closer to 安全な・保証するing his own 遺産／遺物 as a 闘士，戦闘機

'I was just shocked at how 冷気／寒がらせる he really was. He listens 極端に 井戸／弁護士席. when he puts his mind to something he really dives in and dedicates himself to it. That's why he's had all the success he has had.?

'We gelled really 井戸／弁護士席 from the jump. He was my big brother in 状況／情勢s and when it （機の）カム to ボクシング and how to navigate that world, I was his big brother. We had a really good 関係. We used each other's knowledge in our 各々の areas to help each other get where we 手配中の，お尋ね者.'

Riley continued to work closely with KSI and …を伴ってd the YouTuber on a life changing trip to Las Vegas. But, little did Riley know, he wouldn't be returning to the UK.

Instead, he uprooted his life and moved 永久的に to Las Vegas after 調印 with Floyd Mayweather's company 'Mayweather 昇進／宣伝s' after impressing?CEO Leonard Ellerbe during sparring.?

'I was away 影をつくる／尾行するing KSI. He paid for the flight for me and still to this day, that was something that changed my life. I had never had anyone 支払う／賃金 anything for me to that 規模. He decided to 調書をとる／予約する a 商売／仕事 class return flight to Vegas - which to me is crazy. But, he did it.?

'I felt like I had to make the most of it. They only thing I could do to 正当化する it is go there and 代表する 井戸／弁護士席. He's going in the gym 説 this is my trainer and he's the one that taught me.

'So, I can't go in there and get beaten up - I might have been out of a 職業! So I went in there and put my best boots on. I had a few good sparring 開会／開廷／会期s. I have a go od sparring 開会／開廷／会期 with?Andrew Tabiti who as the 最高の，を越す cruiserweight at the time in the US.?

'I did 井戸／弁護士席 against him, it was only three 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs but I had shown enough for them [Mayweather 昇進／宣伝s] to say come and work with us. Lets see if we can build something out of you.?

'I remember thinking, do I 調印する with Mayweather 昇進／宣伝s, move to Vegas as a 21 year old or do I keep 努力する／競うing for the Olympics. I thought, hell yeah I am moving to the （土地などの）細長い一片.?

'I said I am moving to the （土地などの）細長い一片 and that I was going to make this work in the 砂漠 and in the sun and have a brand new experience. I don't 悔いる doing it. At that time it was like just do it.?

'It just doesn't happen, you don't get calls 説 "hey I am one of the best boxers ever, do you want to 調印する for me"... ah no I am good bro thanks. You are not doing it!'.?

However, Riley's love 事件／事情／状勢 with Las Vegas didn't last long. The social マスコミ 星／主役にする decided to give up his life on the （土地などの）細長い一片 and return to England after a 一連の 傷害s and 政府 shutdowns 予定 to Covid tainted his experience.?

'A lot was 行方不明の.?Family 存在 one of the main things, you know, just that freedom of knowing where you are, and knowing where you can go, how you can spend your spare time.?

'Even having your cousins 負かす／撃墜する the road. You know, it was just a lot of things that I took for 認めるd, we're gone. What made it even more difficult was the fact it was during the pandemic. So my family couldn't even travel to see me. So I just felt like I was stuck there.

'From a ボクシング 味方する of things, I just needed my dad to coach me again. I didn't think so, which is why I went for it. I thought he had taught me enough and that someone else could build off that and that they'd get through to me. But when I was there, I realised?that no one gets through to me how he gets through to me.

'He coaches me in a way where it does 始める，決める it into my mind. And I think without that, I knew I wouldn't be the same 闘士，戦闘機 and I could feel myself becoming worse as a 闘士，戦闘機. So, I had to move 支援する. I dropped everything, spent a トン of money, inconvenienced a lot of people and moved 支援する.'

Riley is looking to 延長する his professional 記録，記録的な／記録する to 11-0 when he takes on Lawal at the O2 円形競技場 on Sunday evening

When asked why he felt his dad was able to get through to him in a way no other coach has managed, Riley said: 'He's my parent you know. In the long and short of it he's had to get through to me for 多重の things in my life at different times.?

'ボクシング is just another section of that. He he's had to teach me everything in life. Even in the beginning he had to tell me to pee here or wherever. He's 設立する a way to get through to me.?

'Walk like this, 会談 like this, even simple things. Simple life lessons is what they are and ボクシング is just another lesson.?So the same way he learned how to get those things through to me, he's learned to get ボクシング through to me. He said 権利 if I'm going to teach Viddal ボクシング, and it has to be like this, this is how he learns.'

Riley is looking to 延長する his professional 記録，記録的な／記録する to 11-0 when he takes on Lawal at the O2 円形競技場 on Sunday evening.??