AMID the unlimited supply of wisecracks and the sheer fun of being within arm's reach of little Charlie Flynn, there were words of considerable seriousness about the quandary his unlikely rise to prominence has presented.
His tale has been a triumph over adversity. In an amateur world becoming more professional by the minute thanks to the removal of headguards, the use of the 10-point Must system and the creeping influence of money, the Scot remains a kind of Alf Tupper in gloves.
Flynn admitted, following his gold medal win over Joe Fitzpatrick of Northern Ireland at lightweight, that he almost quit boxing in January. The strain of training while trying to fulfil his work commitments in the Royal Mail sorting office in Wishaw was becoming just too much to bear.
The 20-year-old from Newarthill, near Motherwell, has no sponsors and no funding. Without his bosses agreeing to give him paid leave and offering to provide him with training gear - washed and pressed with love and dedication by his mum, Mary - Glasgow 2014 would have been denied his irrepressible, infectious presence.
Flynn does look longingly towards the Olympics in Rio in two years' time. It would be wonderful for him to aim for the Olympic and Commonwealth double completed in 1956 and 1958 by the man upon whose shoulder he touchingly rested his head during Saturday's medal ceremony, Dick McTaggart.
Fairy tales do not pay the bills, though. Flynn needs to sort out his finances after a long spell of, in his own words, "just scraping through".
The professional game is already making advances and the young boxer is clearly tempted, but Richie Woodhall, who covered Flynn's campaign for the BBC, has urged Team GB to bring him under their umbrella and keep him within the amateur ranks.
Flynn wore down a member of Britain's Lottery-funded 'Podium Squad', the Welshman Joe Cordina, in his Commonwealth semi-final and eventually broke him into little bits. Woodhall, who won Commonwealth Games gold in 1990 as well as Olympic bronze before going on to become the WBC super-middleweight world champion, insists that alone is enough to show that every effort must now be made to prevent him from making the jump to the professional game at such an early stage of his career.
"Out of Scotland's team, I thought Reece McFadden was going to steal the limelight in the competition, but Charlie has come through brilliantly," said Woodhall. "His semi-final win over Cordina, a GB Podium Squad boxer, was incredible.
"Then, you had his performance in the final, which was remarkable for such a young man. He was under pressure, with the expectation of the home crowd, but he turned it to his advantage and fought a great fight. He got his tactics spot-on. I was really, really impressed by him.
"I just pray he stays amateur, because he has got a big, big future in amateur boxing. I would hope he gets the funding he needs, because he deserves it. I'd certainly like to think he would now go down to the GB set-up in Sheffield.
"With his gold medal-winning performance here and the maturity he has shown throughout the tournament, it warrants him going down to join the GB squad. If that's what it takes for him to stay amateur, that's what I hope will happen."
Flynn's victory over Fitzpatrick was followed, just half an hour later, by Josh Taylor making up for the agony of losing the lightweight final in Delhi in 2010 by winning gold at light-welterweight with a fine display against Junias Jonas of Namibia. Taylor is already a member of Team GB's Podium Squad - he has been in their system since 2011 - and was somewhat coy when asked whether he believes it is now time for him to move into the professional ranks.
Woodhall believes the 23-year-old southpaw should delay that almost inevitable move for another two years, though. Based on events in Glasgow, he believes the pride of Prestonpans now possesses the skills to be an Olympic champion.
"If he does go to Rio, he will definitely have a chance of getting a medal, maybe even the gold," said Woodhall. "With the experience he has I think he would be one of the favourites.
"When you have the tournament experience he now has, boxing four or five times over a 10-day period, you are capable of success at the Olympics. Josh has already competed at an Olympic Games in London 2012. There are the world and European championships before Rio, so I think Josh should definitely stay amateur.
"The problem I felt Josh might have going into the final was that he already felt he had won the gold, after beating Sam Maxwell in the semi-final. Josh and Sam were the two most-fancied boxers in the light-welter competition beforehand, so that was like a final before the final.
"However, Josh was at the top of his game again and boxed tremendously well. He obviously can't make lightweight any more. He's too big and too tall and has naturally grown into light-welter. Who knows? He might even go up in weight again, because he's still big at light-welter."
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