{"id":569727,"date":"2026-05-06T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569727\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:58:08","slug":"zak-chelli-believes-david-morrell-jnr-is-underestimating-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569727\/","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":569728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[195038,195039,83265,2560,20393,9556,20420,195040,195041,101,56,54,55,195037,192115],"class_list":["post-569727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-adam-hepple","tag-anthony-sims","tag-ben-whittaker","tag-boxing","tag-callum-simpson","tag-david-benavidez","tag-david-morrell","tag-imam-khataev","tag-lewis-richardson","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wardley-dubois","tag-zak-chelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}