Britain’s boxing cruiserweight champion, Richard Riakporhe, talks through his upbringing on the Aylesbury Estate, being stabbed at 15-years-old and how now he is helping schoolchildren avoid the pathway his own childhood followed.
“For a good four years, my brother and I used to play football every single day. Football was all that consumed our minds.”
For boxer Richard Riakporhe, although he would see crime whenever looking out the windows of his home located in the Chartridge block, growing up on the infamous Aylesbury Estate had its merits. “I like having those moments to remember,” he says.