Junior Witter: 20 years since he conquered the world
This coming week it will be 20 years since Junior Witter became WBC super-lightweight champion
Rotherham's Junior Witter will celebrate the 20th anniversary of winning one of boxing's highest honours on Tuesday.
He walked a path few other professional fighters have done, alongside men of the calibre of Naseem Hamed and Dalton Smith.
On September 15, 2006, he beat American DeMarcus Corley by unanimous decision at London's Alexandra Palace, to bring the vacant WBC super-lightweight title back to South Yorkshire.
Junior, who now runs a gym in Eastwood and lives in Parkgate, remains proud of his achievement - he defended the green and gold belt twice before losing it to Timothy Bradley in May 2008.
His memory of the victory two decades ago is patchy, and he says the 12 rounds now seem to have flashed by.
"I remember the changing rooms, the warm-up and starting the fight well...I was landing really well.
"Corley was good, very tricky and he can punch - a big name on the boxing scene at the time.
"He shelled up and it was hard to break through his defence. I wasn't able to land my bombs.
"In my mind now, it seems it was all over quickly and the announcement was being made that I was the new world champion.
"Afterwards, the only place that was open to eat it in was a Subway - so I had a sandwich and a glass of Coke.
"I went back to the hotel and watched it again; it was so hard to take in what had happened."
While that was the defining achievement of his career, the then Sheffield-Ingle gym-fighter says it was his second defence against New York-based Vivian Harris at Doncaster Dome in 2007 that was the most important milestone.
"Everything that could have gone wrong before that fight did, but I landed the right shots and beat the favourite" he said of the seventh round stoppage.
It was his biggest pay day too.
Witter lost the WBC belt to Bradley and was stopped in another attempt to win it back against Devon Alexander in 2009 in California.
He says his life would have been different had he had won, there would have been more options for money-spinning unification bouts.
"Bradley got all the credit after our fight and everybody rated him as sort of the next generation. I didn't get much credit over here, but I did in America.
"But life moves on" he noted. "Twenty years ago? I don't know where the times goes. It is true that the older you get the faster it goes!"