{"id":929765,"date":"2026-05-01T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/929765\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:12:14","slug":"zak-chelli-explains-how-he-snared-showdown-with-david-morrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/929765\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Chelli explains how he snared showdown with David Morrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cOnce we heard that David Morrell, his fight with Smith [was off], and Smith had to pull out because of injury, my dad went crazy on social media and started saying, \u2018Give him to my son, give him to my son, my son\u2019s the best super middleweight, the best light heavyweight in Great Britain\u2026\u2019 And then a week after that, we got a phone call from management saying, \u2018Listen, we can make this fight happen.\u2019 They want it as well. So that was three weeks ago. \u201cAnd it was like, cool, we\u2019ve asked for it. Let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOnce we heard that David Morrell, his fight with Smith [was off], and Smith had to pull out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,4495,20755,79,16,15,260204],"class_list":["post-929765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-david-morrell","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zak-chelli"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116496901399327960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}