{"id":654463,"date":"2026-05-07T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:08:10","slug":"zak-chelli-believes-david-morrell-jnr-is-underestimating-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654463\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Chelli believes David Morrell Jnr is underestimating him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cAnthony Sims had 23 fights, one loss, with 21 knockouts, and he was deemed to be the next big thing,\u201d Chelli recalled. \u201cThey even, like, already signed a two-fight deal with him for him to fight Liam Smith after me. But I derailed their plans, and once again, inshallah, I\u2019ll derail their plans. I was ready for the 18th of April [to jump in on the Smith show], so I\u2019m always in shape, always ready. Always ready to fight and bring a spectacular show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnthony Sims had 23 fights, one loss, with 21 knockouts, and he was deemed to be the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[316537,316538,64,63,122410,802,148793,13412,33553,316539,316540,85,316536,310578],"class_list":["post-654463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-adam-hepple","tag-anthony-sims","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-whittaker","tag-boxing","tag-callum-simpson","tag-david-benavidez","tag-david-morrell","tag-imam-khataev","tag-lewis-richardson","tag-sports","tag-wardley-dubois","tag-zak-chelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}